adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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Or is it just that Health comes under the national budget but religion is considered to be propaganda? How ironic .
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Now they can be. How ironic .
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She was a wonderful teacher, belonging to a now-vanished age, an uncertificated teacher. How ironic !
particularly
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This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue.
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It is particularly ironic in view of another key policy initiative, welfare to work.
perhaps
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It is perhaps ironic that the fish may die cured!
somewhat
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This is somewhat ironic when it is realized that local government has substantial resources that can not be used because of centrally-imposed prescriptions.
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His somewhat ironic closing aside, the process Dave described closely resembles the high-performance model outlined in the figure on page 168.
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And this would be somewhat ironic given the definition of social psychology with which we started this discussion.
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Hsu admits that it is somewhat ironic that technology designed to help democratise the internet is also allowing the spooks to spy.
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It seems somewhat ironic that shorts have become the training ground for features.
■ NOUN
smile
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Her ironic smile and quizzically raised eyebrows excluded the rest of the dead people.
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He smiled that ironic smile of his that always made me feel so foolish.
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A faint, ironic smile touched her lips.
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I must have become immune to tear gas, she repeated, with an ironic smile .
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He's at least five years younger than her and he has an ironic smile as elusive as hers is guileless.
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He had a good ironic smile when he smiled, which was very infrequently.
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Kirov could not repress a slightly bitter, ironic smile as he thought about it.
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Despite the turmoil within her a small ironic smile lifted the corners of her mouth.
twist
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The comedy of reassurance, still, but with a self-conscious, ironic twist that Bruce Forsyth would never have dreamed of.
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And in an ironic twist , the Author is played by the same actor as the old farmer.
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I know the Story of her Life - each ironic twist .
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While all of the separates bore the requisite logos, they also had a sense of humor or ironic twists .
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In an ironic twist , this time humans will tackle an 8K run or 2-mile walk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I've heard that Dan's really upset about the divorce." "How ironic . He was always the one who was against them getting married in the first place."
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Her car was stolen from outside the police station, which is pretty ironic .
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In a strange and ironic way, many Americans profited from the war.
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It's ironic that professional athletes are often such unhealthy people.
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It's ironic that the most important people in the country often have so little understanding of how ordinary people live.
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It was an ironic situation, the two men in her life meeting like that.
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One of the study's ironic discoveries is that TV trials educate the public about the justice system better than actual trials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Auster leaned back on the sofa, smiled with a certain ironic pleasure, and lit a cigarette.
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Dara does most of the talking, in her histrionic, italicized, ironic way.
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His photographs are complex and sometimes ironic .
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In fact, it accentuates the lavishly comic-book style and ironic wit of the whole film.
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No one he knew had figured out how he could drink this way, with ironic restraint.
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The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic .
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The tone is that of the narrator, ironic and sad - yet the novel does contain some successful humour.
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This situation has many ironic effects.