All 8 Uses of

irony

in

Notes from the Underground

What is more, he will talk to you with excitement and passion of the true normal interests of man; with irony he will upbraid the short-sighted fools who do not understand their own interests, nor the true significance of virtue; and, within a quarter of an hour, without any sudden outside provocation, but simply through something inside him which is stronger than all his interests, he will go off on quite a different tack--that is, act in direct opposition to what he has just been…†
Chpt 1.7

I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!"†
Chpt 1.7

There were moments of such positive intoxication, of such happiness, that there was not the faintest trace of irony within me, on my honour.
Chpt 2.2

irony = saying one thing while meaning something else

"Oh, poor fellow!" Zverkov cried ironically, for to his notions this was bound to be extremely funny.
Chpt 2.4 *

ironically = saying one thing, while meaning the opposite

"Why, you …. speak somehow like a book," she said, and again there was a note of irony in her voice.†
Chpt 2.6

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you.†
Chpt 2.6

In his behaviour to me he was a perfect tyrant, he spoke very little to me, and if he chanced to glance at me he gave me a firm, majestically self-confident and invariably ironical look that drove me sometimes to fury.†
Chpt 2.8