Irony
a kind of ridicule which exposes errors or faults by seeming to approve, adopt, or defend them. The Socratic irony is employed in argument when one speaker affects to take the positions of the other for granted, in order adroitly to lead him into self-contradiction or obvious absurdity. Veiled sarcasm is a brief modern definition of irony.
IROQUOIS (ir'ō-kwois), a confederation of Indians formerly occupying the