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irony noun cynicism, ironia, mockery, sarcasm, satire IRONY, rhetoric. A term derived from the Greek, which signifies
dissimulation. It is a refined species of ridicule, which, under the mask of
honest simplicity or ignorance, exposes the faults and errors of others, by
seeming to adopt or defend them.
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| The tragic irony is that precious childhood seems to have been replaced by premature adulthood. There is tragic irony in the fact that Libya had a nuclear weapons program which could have posed a real danger to the world but the situation has been dealt with diplomatically," the report noted. It's a sad and tragic irony that on the eve of warfare we can presume that today may be the last day of the cruel, perverse sanctions regime. |
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