Definition of Irony

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Definition of Irony

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.

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Irony Quotations

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
Michael J. Fox

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
Roger Daltrey

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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