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"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
(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
1. historical irony = historyczna ironia historical irony
2. real irony = prawdziwa ironia real irony
  • Of course, that's when the real irony kicked in.
  • The real irony is of course that it would be very easy to make schools perform better.
  • The real irony is, it was one sweltering weekend in August 1989.
  • The real irony is that their mechanism has been cracked.
  • The real irony is that this will probably make him more popular - at least with Mail readers.
  • "You want to know what the real irony is?"
  • There was a chance for real irony here, a bit of poetic justice, if she could just figure out how to orchestrate it.
  • The real irony was that Brennan had been given command of the assault.
  • He thought - not for the first time - that there was a real irony in all this.
  • But the real irony of the statement was that it was true.
(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 • ...

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