Definition: 1. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn. 2. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. 3. A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
Use 'irony' in a sentence:
1. That’s sort of a poignant irony.
2. The Comparison and Translation Between English Irony and Chinese Irony.
3. A Psychological Research on Chinese Children's Understanding of Irony.
4. This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home.
5. The irony is lost in translation.
6. An irony is so quiet and so delicate that many readers never notice it.
7. Opposition parties lost no time in stressing the irony of his return to power after being rejected by voters in November.
8. That's the irony of this.
9. He smiles ruefully at the irony.
10. There is a cruel irony to all this.
11. The irony was that Shawn had not seen her. Nor for that matter had anyone else.
12. The case has a sad irony to it.
13. Here's an irony, the building we are in now, the astronomy building not far from our observatory, has unshielded lights.
14. Pragmatics and cognitive linguistics provide different perspectives for irony study.
15. But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.
16. They find only irony in the narrator's concern.
17. There's a touch of irony in his remarks.
18. Their opinions are a great contribution to the research of irony.
19. In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.
20. Her writing contains a hint of irony.
21. I glanced at her and saw no hint of irony on her face.
22. The irony of the historian' s craft is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process.
23. Caine has always been an actor who excels in irony.
24. His command of irony and invective was said to be very classic and lethal.
25. Then there's the final irony.
26. There’s a bitter irony here.
27. However, the irony is that all of these activities and responsibilities that we are giving our children to make their lives colorful could be badly influencing their health and taking happiness away.
28. This seems to be the irony of office speak: everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.
29. This would be no small irony.
30. The potential irony is clear.
31. The character is played by Pamela Rabe, one of Australia's most accomplished actors, without a hump and with a heavy sense of irony.
32. The irony is that for all the overexcited debate, the net effect of immigration is minimal.
33. The irony in all this?
34. She said to him with slight irony.
35. The speaker with high social class is more likely to use irony.
36. His works on the absurdity and sufferings of life create the most comprehensive irony.
37. One could break away into irony& as indeed he often had to.
38. She spoke to him with irony in her voice.
39. Developments of Research on the Mental Mechanism in Children's Understanding of Irony.
40. Sinclair examined the closed, clever face for any hint of irony, but found none.
41. THE irony will be lost on few Spaniards.
42. But here's the crazy irony, I don't want my child-free life back.
43. She spoke with heavy irony.
44. The irony is that when he finally got the job, he discovered he didn't like it.
45. By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.
46. His tone was tinged with irony.
47. This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony.
48. 'England is famous for its food,' she said with heavy irony.
49. There was a note of irony in his voice.
50. There is a delicious irony in all this.
51. The phrase is loaded with irony.
52. By violating the maxims, it can be a way to be subtle or polite, or to convey humor, through sarcasm or irony.
