irony

nouns

witty language used to convey insults or scorn
"he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire
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ironical
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ironic
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ironist
incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
"the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
irony
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ironic
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ironical
is a type of (narrower)
the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
incongruity, incongruousness
a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
irony
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ironic
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ironical
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language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
figure, figure of speech, image, trope