Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrisory
Literary usage of Irrisory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"... and I wish that, even there, you had been less irrisory, less of a pleader;
that you had been, in dispassionate urbanity, his follower. ..."
2. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen by Walter Savage Landor (1826)
"... your dialogues : and I wish that, even there, you had been rather less irrisory,
less of a pleader, and had been in dispassionate urbanity his follower. ..."
3. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"... and I wish that, even there, you had been less irrisory, less of a pleader;
that you had been, in dispassionate urbanity, his follower. ..."
4. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen by Walter Savage Landor (1826)
"... your dialogues : and I wish that, even there, you had been rather less irrisory,
less of a pleader, and had been in dispassionate urbanity his follower. ..."
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