irony

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

The irony did not escape one local, Laith Hathim, as he stood and watched the newly minted refugees make their way into Mosul.

The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?

The root of the word irony is in the Greek eironeia, “liar.”

Lacking any sense of irony, Eldridge made campaign-finance reform a signature plank.

This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and banter.

Today her irony was concealed, but, like a carefully-covered fire, he knew it was burning still.

Barrington winced a little, for he recognized the irony in the failing voice, but he rose and moved towards the bed.

As you will see, I was unable to end my letter without a touch of impertinent irony, which proved how much in love I still was.

Ovid looked a bit doubtful, but Scattergood's voice was so interested, so bland, that any suspicion of irony was allayed.