1. irony - Noun
2. irony - Adjective
Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
Source: Webster's dictionarySentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Karl Kraus
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert A. Heinlein
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Anatole France
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Friedrich Schlegel
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. Don DeLillo