"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

1. delicious irony = doskonała ironia delicious irony

2. sweet irony = słodka ironia sweet irony

3. comic irony = komiczna ironia comic irony

4. wry irony = cierpka ironia wry irony

But so do gospel-ish celebrations, wry ironies and melodies of love.
"I can imagine that she was not happy," Xylina said, with wry and sad irony.
Barks's stories (whether humorous adventures or domestic comedies) often exhibited a wry, dark irony born of hard experience.
Al gloated a little over the "triumph" of getting Bob to speak, with a certain wry irony.
Both the louts and the potentially redeemable are portrayed with wry, bristling irony.
The observation contained just enough wry irony to restore the Moor's good humor.
Tears of wretchedness and fear lay very close to the surface, but she couldn't keep from smiling with wry irony at her own capacity for the trivial.
Picardie displays "a sensible skepticism and a wry irony," Lauren F. Winner wrote here in 2002.
Much of it was by phone - no nudging, true, but intonation could help distinguish, say, wry irony from bitter resentment.
They began to call themselves, with wry irony, the Mexica.

5. amusing irony = rozśmieszając ironię amusing irony

6. postmodern irony = postmodernistyczna ironia postmodern irony

(7) sad, tragic, bittersweet

Kolokacji: 3

(8) dramatic, greatest, wonderful

Kolokacji: 3

(9) gentle, mild, far

Kolokacji: 3

(10) historical, real

Kolokacji: 2

(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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