"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

irony sustantivo

irony + verbo

Kolokacji: 5

irony strikes • irony escapes • irony lies • Irony abounds • irony makes

verbo + irony

Kolokacji: 5

irony is lost • use irony • find irony • detect irony • lack irony

adjetivo + irony

Kolokacji: 58

bitter irony • great irony • certain irony • cruel irony • heavy irony • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 3

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 16

(1) bitter, grim, dark, sharp, unfortunate

Kolokacji: 5

1. bitter irony = gorzka ironia bitter irony

2. grim irony = ponura ironia grim irony

3. dark irony = gniewna ironia dark irony

4. sharp irony = ostra ironia sharp irony

5. unfortunate irony = ironia nieszczęśnika unfortunate irony

"Here, the community supports saving this structure and it would be an unfortunate irony if it were to be razed."
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
They happen to be the crucial words and concepts of American liberalism, and therein lies a neglected story - and an unfortunate irony.
Some professors at the horticulture center here in Seattle said they found a particularly unfortunate irony in the damage.
"The unfortunate irony is that drugs heavily promoted as correcting unproven biochemical imbalances may be, in fact, causing imbalances and brain damage," he asserts.
The unfortunate irony for field staff, however, is that immediate changes in water quality are almost certainly changes for the worse which follow a major pollution incident.
The President demonstrated an unfortunate irony: a panel conceived to help Americans accommodate diversity has itself become an illustration of the problem.
To the Editor: I am obligated to point out the unfortunate irony of your statement that ". . . every reform seems to threaten some hitherto unnoticed prerogative.
But the sale, whose completion was announced Wednesday, has been attended by some unfortunate ironies.
It was an unfortunate irony.

(2) great, heavy, little, small, central, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(3) certain, deliberate, particular

Kolokacji: 3

(4) cruel, subtle, savage, poignant

Kolokacji: 4

(5) ultimate, final

Kolokacji: 2

(6) delicious, sweet, comic, wry, amusing, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(7) sad, tragic, bittersweet

Kolokacji: 3

(8) dramatic, greatest, wonderful

Kolokacji: 3

(9) gentle, mild, far

Kolokacji: 3

(10) historical, real

Kolokacji: 2

(11) apparent, obvious

Kolokacji: 2

(12) terrible, painful, horrible, dreadful, awful

Kolokacji: 5

(13) strange, curious

Kolokacji: 2

(14) considerable, deep, cosmic, rich, interesting

Kolokacji: 5

(15) exquisite, fine, nice, delicate

Kolokacji: 4

(16) unconscious, unintended, unintentional

Kolokacji: 3

preposición + irony

Kolokacji: 9

of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.