"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
1. delicious irony = doskonała ironia delicious irony
2. sweet irony = słodka ironia sweet irony
3. comic irony = komiczna ironia comic irony
  • Weaver's comic ironies can occasionally seem repetitive, and he tends to recycle particularly catchy phrases.
  • Still, the fact that the minstrel on stage would desire someone the audience knew to be another man was a source of comic dramatic irony.
  • Mr. McMurtry's is sentimentality laced with comic irony, and it works very well.
  • More successful are the heavy comic ironies placed against gloomy and imaginative elucidations of modern life.
  • But now comes the comic irony; which never fails to follow on the attempt of the Prussian to be philosophic.
  • He appears to put himself in that category--a piece of comic irony that may make you laugh.
  • There is a comic irony about these two.
  • With delicious comic irony, Robin introduces him at the neighborhood Memorial Day picnic as a foreign exchange student.
  • The most important characteristic of their lyrics is the strong sarcasm and comic irony which gives the music a peculiar goliardic touch.
  • There are touches of comic irony amid the philosophizing.
4. wry irony = cierpka ironia wry irony
5. amusing irony = rozśmieszając ironię amusing irony
6. postmodern irony = postmodernistyczna ironia postmodern irony
(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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