irony
ਦੁੱਖ
definition
noun
“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
adjective
an irony gray color
of or like iron.
example
To add 'irony' to injury, his reselection was itself a result of an injury to the captain Jason Robinson.
Those who don't know him better could be forgiven for missing the 'irony' in that expression.
The 'irony' of the growing shortage is that in responding to it, China could soon find itself with too much capacity.
The 'irony' is almost too perfect: Malls are now being designed to resemble the downtown commercial districts they replaced.
‘Don't go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoined with heavy 'irony'
In a strange twist of 'irony' , this very narrowing down of themes may result in a wider audience.
I suppose that there are people who could fail to notice when I'm deploying 'irony' , exaggerating for humorous effect or just burbling.
Expressing yourself through 'irony' is the way to go these days.
However, it soon dawned on me that these people were actually real activists, and their chants were not a form of deliberate 'irony' .
His behaviour is a perfect expression of courtesy and good feeling with a spice of 'irony' in it.
In a case of savage 'irony' , Yost ended up supervising the termination of many of the engineers he helped to hire.
It would be the perfect 'irony' if today's opponents provided the spark that Scotland need to beat them in their own magnificent Millennium Stadium.
The greatest 'irony' of this case was that his wife was also a patient, presenting with insomnia due to shift work as a nurse.
With deliberate 'irony' , they also echo corporate efforts at conveying information efficiently.
Heavy 'irony' underlines her declaration that she had always wanted to be in the movies and longed to be discovered, like Marilyn Monroe.
In perfect 'irony' , one of them was seen pasting posters on the pedestal of the Kamaraj statue to publicise an agitation in the city on Tuesday.
A palpable sense of 'irony' , derived from Greek tragedy, embeds itself in the noirish landscape.
But perhaps the most bitter and disturbing 'irony' is that the best surf tends to arrive during the winter.
The final dialogue, Imperceptible, is a darkly humorous piece of 'irony' .
There's plenty of 'irony' in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users' choices.
The second, appended to the first half with humorous 'irony' , was apparently intended to mean what it sounded like.
It would be the final 'irony' of this extraordinary affair if the fight were to be cancelled on the grounds that it could be a threat to public order.
But the jokes, slang and heavy 'irony' that make up the established banter of the building trade could be heading for extinction.
It involved the use of that very English form of expression known as 'irony' .
But did he know he would use 'irony' to such clever effect even a moment before he began doing so?
The filmmakers used the city's motto ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ as the film's title with deliberate 'irony' .
The 'irony' was that Airdrie emerged from the match with one of their best results after one of their poorest performances.
By this point in the movie, Banek can only laugh with caustic 'irony' at this diatribe.
The 'irony' of that situation was that Stalin judged Hitler to be more rational than in fact he was.
Schlegel's Romantic 'irony' was a reaction to the systematic thought of Kant.
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