All 7 Uses of
irony
in
Native Speaker
- When he left us she bid him goodbye using his surname, with neither irony nor derision.
(definition 1) *irony = indicating one thing while meaning something else
- Pete Ichibata was gloomy, ironical, pale.†
(definition 2)
- We talked plenty anyway, talked her work, and other things, talked friends, did our talk of family, the talk of how much we missed each other, even the queer ironical talk of when I was coming back home.†
(definition 2)
- Irony was always lost on him.†
(definition 2)
- I intend no irony or special mode.
(definition 1)irony = saying one thing while meaning something else
- Ironically, these were all the things that my father forever wanted me to consider, and to what as a teenager I had disingenuously cried, "What about love?"
(definition 2) *ironically = when what happens is very different than what might be expected
- "Your name," she says, not ironical.†
(definition 2)