A dissimulation or ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
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Examples for "irony"
Examples for "irony"
1The great irony, of course, is that WorldCom's problems were only beginning.
2The irony of the situation was not totally lost on him, however.
3That's the irony in what is happening in the cable industry today.
4There's a tragic irony there, seen from the Tibetans' point of view.
5There is, to be sure, a keen irony to the UK situation.
1The former is known as the Socratic Irony.
2He indulged in no Socratic irony.
3Many of these, with a sort of Socratic irony, gave themselves ludicrous names, or names expressive of ignorance.
4The genuine dialogues appear to have been marked by the Socratic irony; an amusing passage is quoted by Cicero in the De inventione (i.
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