1.
You use ~ to draw attention to a situation which is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast.
Ironically, for a man who hated war, he would have made a superb war cameraman.
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2.
If you say something ~, you do not mean it and are saying it as a joke.
Classmates at West Point had ~ dubbed him Beauty.
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