Collocations withirony
These are words often used in combination withirony.
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bitter irony
It was a bitter irony that a movement so concerned with the politics of production should have had so little leverage at the workplace for much of the period.
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certain irony
There is a certain irony to the position.
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cruel irony
There is a further cruel irony in all this.
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final irony
There is at least one final irony here.
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great irony
The great irony is that as the states liberalized their charter law they lost some control over the direction of economic development.
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sense of irony
With a characteristic sense of irony, he used the example of the controversial needle exchange proposals.
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tragic irony
The curse, in a standard tragic irony, finally redounds upon her; the natural order of gender has its revenge.
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ultimate irony
Roy's new virtuosity presents the ultimate irony.
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