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irony

/ˈaɪ.ɚ.ni/ noun C2
  1. A kind of metallic marble. (dated)

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Finally he took refuge in a somewhat acrid irony.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
“A song and dance!” she said, in a deliberate sweet voice that seemed to clothe her words in a diaphanous garment of impalpable irony.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 36 · C1
“And what would you do, my dear diplomatist,” replied Morcerf, with a slight degree of irony in his voice, “if you did nothing?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 430 · C1
It would have required the penetration of Œdipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 438 · C1

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