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Irony   /ˈaɪrəni/   Listen
Irony

noun
1.
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.  Synonyms: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire.  "Irony is wasted on the stupid" , "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"
2.
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
3.
A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.



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"Irony" Quotes from Famous Books



... delicate irony no answer was possible, and Kate could only bite her lips, and pretend not to understand. But it was difficult not to turn pale and tremble sometimes, so agonizing were the anecdotes that the active brain of Dolly conjured up concerning the atrocities that ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... between you and me; and your fate for all time, your future weal or woe is rather a costly shuttlecock to be tossed to and fro in a game of words. I do not come to bandy phrases, and in view of your imminent peril, I cannot quite understand your irony." ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... their lines all the way around our hollow, and they're sure now they'll hold us fast," said Henry, with grim irony. ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler
... as luckily want of breath had forced him to wait and really hear it, a sensation came over him of old times when Edward Underwood had argued with him; and it was with much less heat that he returned, with an effort at irony, 'And so you take the bread out of the mouths of the others to support my fine gentleman ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... slowly from the nag to his cavalier, as if he required some time to ascertain whether it could be to him that such strange reproaches were addressed; then, when he could not possibly entertain any doubt of the matter, his eyebrows slightly bent, and with an accent of irony and insolence impossible to be described, he replied to d'Artagnan, "I was ...
— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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