ultimate irony

collocation in English

meaningsofultimateandirony

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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irony
noun[U]
uk
/ˈaɪ.rə.ni/us
/ˈaɪ.rə.ni/
a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very ...
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(Definition ofultimateandironyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofultimate irony

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Roy's new virtuosity presents theultimateirony.
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This is theultimateirony!
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This is, in itself, a distortion of competition and theultimateironyis that it is a directive which is allowing this.
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It would be theultimateironyif those who seek to defeat democracy are, in turn, defeated by democracy.
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Theultimateironyis that well over £200 of state funds is required to keep these people in institutional care.
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We are also being accused—this is theultimateirony—of not complying with rules that have not yet been created.
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We have theultimateirony, do we not?
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I cannot refrain from remarking that historians of the future may come to remark on anultimateirony.
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In terms of debate that provides us with theultimateirony.
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I suppose we have reached theultimateirony.
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Theultimateironyis that the new pharmacy will dispense national health prescriptions for the whole town and will be largely protected from any future competition.
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