And to avoid the sadness of separation, he asked with an ironical smile: "How long?"

"If it will keep you busy," he said, with a faintly ironical smile.

I can recall very well that placid face of his, over which at times an ironical smile used to flit.

"Death in itself matters but little," mused the philosopher with his gently ironical smile.

An ironical smile curled the corners of his cruel lips.

An ironical smile passed over the lips of Monk.

He glanced back at Seward with an ironical smile.

He stood and watched them disappear, an ironical smile on his face.

Then, an ironical smile on his face, he rose to his feet.

Otherwise, words about a high level of social protection as an EU task will do no more than raise an ironical smile.