irony
ستم ظریفی
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
There's plenty of 'irony' in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users' choices.
It involved the use of that very English form of expression known as 'irony' .
The 'irony' is almost too perfect: Malls are now being designed to resemble the downtown commercial districts they replaced.
The 'irony' was that Airdrie emerged from the match with one of their best results after one of their poorest performances.
But perhaps the most bitter and disturbing 'irony' is that the best surf tends to arrive during the winter.
To add 'irony' to injury, his reselection was itself a result of an injury to the captain Jason Robinson.
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' .
I suppose that there are people who could fail to notice when I'm deploying 'irony' , exaggerating for humorous effect or just burbling.
The final dialogue, Imperceptible, is a darkly humorous piece of 'irony' .
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.
You can not express 'irony' or metaphor effectively in ticker-tape speech.
The second, appended to the first half with humorous 'irony' , was apparently intended to mean what it sounded like.
Heavy 'irony' underlines her declaration that she had always wanted to be in the movies and longed to be discovered, like Marilyn Monroe.
I enjoyed your piece, Tom, I like contradictions, 'irony' , humour and absurdities.
His behaviour is a perfect expression of courtesy and good feeling with a spice of 'irony' in it.
They do it very quickly, using 'irony' , saying the opposite of what they mean, and using extreme language.
“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy 'irony'
But did he know he would use 'irony' to such clever effect even a moment before he began doing so?
In a strange twist of 'irony' , this very narrowing down of themes may result in a wider audience.
‘Don't go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoined with heavy 'irony'
The results are 'irony' and sarcasm, and those are two things I try to avoid.
In a case of savage 'irony' , Yost ended up supervising the termination of many of the engineers he helped to hire.
I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain 'irony' as a literary device.
By this point in the movie, Banek can only laugh with caustic 'irony' at this diatribe.
A tale of two cities, heavy with 'irony' and laden with symbolism, was played out over the summer.
the 'irony' is that I thought he could help me
With deliberate 'irony' , they also echo corporate efforts at conveying information efficiently.
The filmmakers used the city's motto ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ as the film's title with deliberate 'irony' .
The 'irony' of that situation was that Stalin judged Hitler to be more rational than in fact he was.
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