Words similar to irony

Example sentences for: irony

How can you use “irony” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Also, I realize we're supposed to keep this current and newsy, and this is definitely an old story by now, but I just have to ask what you think about the whole Death of Irony debate that everybody was talking about a while back.
The difficulty arises in trying to say what kind of irony cross-talk resembles.
While that comment sounds like amusing irony, it is in reality a dangerous assumption based on very little (if any) actual experience with people who have had the offensive term used to describe them.
Whatever wildness remains in this toyshop West--as innocent of political engagement as a child's playroom floor--derives from a visual imagination stocked with '50s movies and a reckless willingness to play these overexposed scenes straight, with neither irony nor commentary.
This is what Fiss means by the "irony" in his title: that true freedom of speech for all requires suppressing the speech of some.