"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
1. certain irony = pewna ironia certain irony
2. particular irony = szczególna ironia particular irony
  • There's a particular irony in mixing the last chapter of a great baseball player's story with all the anti-death strategies of new age sciences like cloning and cryogenics.
  • There is a particular irony in the attempt to arouse a repressive American attitude to the arts at this time.
  • Yet there was a particular irony even in this.
  • Schoen believes the basis for this particular irony can be found in Ravitch's niche in the moderate to conservative wing of the party.
  • Here, too, Spain served as something of a model for much of Latin America - and, in a particular irony, for Chile.
  • It's almost a vampiric process, really though l expect that particular irony is sadly lost on you.
  • This particular irony has not escaped the critics of the Kent Land Trust.
  • But in an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 1997, he recalled capturing an image of particular historical irony.
  • Israel also lives with a particular irony.
  • In the Soviet Union, however, Mr. Gorbachev did everything he could to avert such an outcome, which imbues his present situation with a particular irony.
3. deliberate irony = celowa ironia deliberate irony
(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
(13) strange, curious
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + irony
Kolokacji: 9
of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

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