"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(5) ultimate, final
Kolokacji: 2
(7) sad, tragic, bittersweet
Kolokacji: 3
(9) gentle, mild, far
Kolokacji: 3
(10) historical, real
Kolokacji: 2
(11) apparent, obvious
Kolokacji: 2
1. apparent irony = oczywista ironia apparent irony
2. obvious irony = oczywista ironia obvious irony
  • Gallagher is too pointedly an ironist to point out an irony so obvious, so she gets at it another way.
  • Burns uses biblical language to convey the obvious irony present in the idea that Holy Willie is a 'chosen sample'.
  • The obvious irony is that after Nazism's defeat, Jews became its foremost witnesses.
  • I can see myself in a boring Swedish movie, slow to react to painfully obvious ironies.
  • She was usually bright enough to understand such an obvious irony as that.
  • One of the obvious ironies in all this is that couples are not asking for anything radical.
  • "Aside from the obvious irony," Pattie said, "how does that help us?"
  • I shrugged at the obvious irony; I didn't want to get into a fight.
  • (Immelman remarked in an interview on the obvious irony of the size of the lesion).
  • "I know you have urgent business of your own," Sharbaraz said, again without obvious irony.
(13) strange, curious
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + irony
Kolokacji: 9
of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

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