irony
Speech parts
1. irony - Noun
2. irony - Adjective
Meaning
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.
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Examples
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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.
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.