irony

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• February 10. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  irony — noun — english

  witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

• February 28. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  irony — noun — english

  incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"

• February 28. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  irony — noun — english

  a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs