Irony Irony
Yes, you read that right. "Irony irony" is a real category on this site - examples of irony about irony itself. If you've ever wondered whether a site about irony could be ironic, or whether the very concept of irony is somehow ironic, you're in the right place. We have 1,758 examples and we're honestly not sure what that says about us, or the English language, or the universe. Probably all three.
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Is it ironic that A 'no stopping' sign was bent backwards, presumably by a car.
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Is it ironic that I was on my way to a seminar on traumatic brain injury, and then got into an accident that left me with permanent brain damage?
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Is it ironic that I was thought that it was a good idea to starve the poor.
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Is it ironic that If members of the group in Oregon who uphold the constitution, are convicted of a felony, they will lose their right to own firearms?
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Is it ironic that Someone gets offended, after previously telling you that 'people who get offended need to toughen up'?
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Is it ironic that There's a bounty hunter name hunter and his last name is bounty.
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Is it ironic that I don't have a key to my own house, but others do.
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Is it ironic that Only idiots who don't understand the simplicity of irony endlessly discuss irony.
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Is it ironic that A motel's glamorous location made it hip and ironic rather than old and dead? From "Make Me" by Lee Child.
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Is it ironic that When asked about his strengths, a person says he has good memory, and later criticizes himself for having bad memory?
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Is it ironic that The more I try to get people to like me, the less friends I have?
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Is it ironic that I misspelled genious?
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Is it ironic that The state of Israel is persecuting a genocidal war in Gaza, when the state of israel was founded (in part) as a reaction against the horrors of genocide?
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Is it ironic that Someon is happy others can see her photos of a blind football match.
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Is it ironic that Ronald Reagan asked Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall keeping East Germans from freedom while today Republican Presidential Candidates want to build a wall to keep people from freedom?
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Is it ironic that When I have to get up @ 6am it's nearly impossible, I wrestle with the snooze button, and feel like I'm made of lead, and yet when I can sleep in, I wake up @ 6am, feeling fine & ready to go?
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Is it ironic that A place that was closed down due to fighting now teaches people to fight?
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Is it ironic that The following thought made me laugh in the same manner that I laugh at irony, and I thought it might quality under definition 2i: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, but I'm not sure.
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Is it ironic that This woman would lock herself in a bathroom, thinking she could stay out of jail.
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Is it ironic that When I was a kid only my sister could understand what I was saying, but then in middle school she was my biggest bully about my speech impediment?
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Is it ironic that There is free Wifi at an Amish store?
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Is it ironic that I judge people for being too judgemental?
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Is it ironic that An ambulance is heading to an accident and happens to hit a pedestrian on it's way.
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Is it ironic that Is the so-called reconciliation at the end of Romeo and Juliet ironic? According to Harold Bloom it is but I don't quite understand why.
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Is it ironic that Liz parked her new car in two spaces at the mall so it wouldn't get dings.