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Definition of Irony
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Irony
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. Related Definitions:
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Irony Quotations
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West 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. W. Somerset Maugham Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Friedrich Von Schlegel |
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Irony Translations
irony in Dutch is ironie irony in French is ironie irony in German is Ironie irony in Italian is ironia irony in Norwegian is ironi irony in Swedish is ironin, ironi |
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