noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
detect a note of sarcasm/irony/excitement etc
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Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your voice?
dramatic irony
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
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The bitter irony was that the whole plan had been her idea right from the start.
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His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
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And the bitterest irony of all was that he himself was a victim.
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It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach.
certain
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There is a certain irony about the events leading up to the 1954 Convention.
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There is a certain irony in the Democrats' harmonious return to Chicago this week.
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There was a certain look of irony in her expression, a mixture of shyness and sarcasm.
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There is a certain irony in all this.
cruel
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By a cruel irony , it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement.
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There was, indeed, a kind of cruel irony in the collapse of the irrigation companies.
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This is a particularly cruel irony because as the 1911 census revealed doctors had the smallest families of all categories of occupations.
dramatic
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The two basic forms of irony found in these tales are verbal irony and dramatic irony.
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There's dramatic irony for you.
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It was above all the smile of dramatic irony , of those who have privileged information.
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It is a textbook for the study of dramatic irony in all its forms.
great
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It is one of the great ironies that Bourbon is a dry county.
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That is the greatest irony of all.
heavy
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The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony .
nice
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He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing.
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There was a nice irony in steelworkers asking for the same interest rates.
tragic
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It was a Hardyesque situation, and one which added an element of tragic irony to my sorrow.
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In a tragic twist of irony , Goldberg was taken seriously.
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With a tragic irony she very nearly succeeded.
ultimate
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To lose her now would be the ultimate irony .
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And the ultimate irony about Saint-Mames is that that particular saint Saint-Mames is the patron saint of the stomach.
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Perhaps the ultimate irony is that Stalinist-style Socialist Realism is now being sold in the West.
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To me, it seemed the ultimate irony .
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But our instinctive need to fill the vacuum inspires us to the ultimate irony: We turn 12 average citizens into killers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heavy irony/sarcasm
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As the magazine with heavy sarcasm reported: Lady Betty adopted her new career with relish.
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The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Life is full of ironies, some hilarious, some tragic.
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The irony is that some of the poorest countries have the richest natural resources.
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The irony of the situation was obvious -- if I told the truth, nobody would believe me!
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The tragic irony is that the drug was supposed to save lives.
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Through irony and humor, James dilutes the seriousness of the novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the bitterest irony of all was that he himself was a victim.
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Beneath the cynicism, beneath the irony , however, turmoil.
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It is worth stressing the irony of the applicant's position.
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Perhaps the author is being satirical, employing irony , allegory, or ambiguity.
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The irony continued throughout its pages.
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The irony of it is that he has the persistence to get somewhere.
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We thank Flaubert for picking it up; in a sense, the irony wasn't there until he observed it.