A dissimulation or ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
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The great irony, of course, is that WorldCom's problems were only beginning.
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The irony of the situation was not totally lost on him, however.
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That's the irony in what is happening in the cable industry today.
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There's a tragic irony there, seen from the Tibetans' point of view.
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There is, to be sure, a keen irony to the UK situation.
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The former is known as the Socratic Irony.
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He indulged in no Socratic irony.
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Many of these, with a sort of Socratic irony, gave themselves ludicrous names, or names expressive of ignorance.
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The genuine dialogues appear to have been marked by the Socratic irony; an amusing passage is quoted by Cicero in the De inventione (i.