"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Finally, is anyone else struck by the dreadful irony of Djokovic being hoisted by his own petard in the matter of the pre-serve ball bounce?
- There is a dreadful irony in the thought that war, the destroyer of men, finally changed man into a beastlike creature.
- 'Dear God, what dreadful irony that I should call on you for help!'
- And only now, with dreadful irony, came Takvi's report, "Weapons powered up."
- Curious that the French could see no contradiction in the two objects, Ramage thought; the dreadful irony that a Tree of Liberty stood in the shade of a guillotine.
- There was a dreadful irony in his voice-a sense of profound mistrust in the words even as he offered them.
- There was some dreadful irony in what he knew, and he could not tell her, even if he would have.
- The dreadful, dreadful irony of it!
- If the attacks on the World Trade Center made reflexive cynicism feel callow, the remedy is not less irony, but harder, sharper, more dreadful irony.
- But Lord Crome meant something much blacker and bitterer than that when he said, with a dreadful irony, that it commemorated a romance in his family.
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