irony
Nouns
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(n) 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
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(n) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
- the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated
- (n) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs