English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van ironie is 'n situasie waar die teenoorgestelde van wat verwag word, voorkom of wanneer woorde gebruik word om 'n betekenis oor te dra wat die teenoorgestelde van hul letterlike betekenis is. Ironie kan gebruik word om humor, sarkasme oor te dra of om die teenstrydigheid tussen wat verwag word en wat werklik gebeur, uit te lig.

Sentence Examples

  1. My first reaction was to laugh at the irony of the whole situation, but then I felt it.
  2. I stayed the night in a cheap motel in Rogers, amazed at the irony of me escaping the very scenario only to return and do it anyway.
  3. Caim would love the irony, would take enormous pleasure in the idea of thumbing his nose at Heaven in that way.
  4. There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion.
  5. If so, there was deep, dark irony in Dryden investigating the killing of a policeman and getting himself killed as a result.
  6. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture.
  7. Had the circumstances not been so grave, Lance would have laughed, but Jack was so engrossed in his fears for Mark that the irony of two pretty girls hitting on him went over his head.
  8. He struggled not to laugh at the irony of the situation.
  9. The irony was that instead of the script defining which, out of all of that, would be used, it was actually they that determined the script in the end.
  10. He smiled at the irony that the lessons from his years in Limbo should stand him in such good stead now.