Most popular examples
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Is it ironic that A sentient and highly intelligent robot is ignorant to the fact that she is not human?
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Is it ironic that Everyone has it wrong! Irony means to say or write one thing but mean another.
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Is it ironic that I couldn't remember the name of my mom's flowers? They were called Forget-Me-Nots.
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Is it ironic that Americans have no clue what irony is or how to use it, yet the opposite of pro is con, so the opposite of progress is congress?
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Is it ironic that A prisoner is escaping from the prison grounds and after he runs past the walls, is hit by a Ford Escape.
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Is it ironic that Getting an MBA to learn the tools to realize that getting an MBA is a bad investment.
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Is it ironic that Four people work in a place specializing in local history.
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Is it ironic that That Friday is my Birthday.
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Is it ironic that I bought a stock hoping to make a $2 profit per share, and it immediately fell $2 per share as soon as I bought it?
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Is it ironic that "So which one I can call mine?" she wondered.
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Is it ironic that I was at the library working on a short story in which the narrator describes crashing his car into a parked car, and when I left the library I discovered that my own parked car had been crashed into?
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Is it ironic that The Campaign for Real Irony provides, for its definition of irony, a link to this site's "Definition of Irony" page, which acknowledges that the dictionary definitions of "irony" are problematic?
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Is it ironic that I dream of my teacher appeared in my my dream and in real life.
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Is it ironic that Lagging because your are downloading a anti-lag software.
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Is it ironic that The dude in the Chevy Silverado who changed lanes without signaling or checking his blind spot, cutting me and my motorcycle off, and nearly forcing me into the median, during my commute this morning...
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Is it ironic that I postponed a meeting this week to a day next week to suit a specific person then found out that person has a meeting somewhere else already that day?
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Is it ironic that The dictionary definition of irony, which has the express purpose of clarifying the meaning of the term, only manages to further confuse the reader; thereby itself standing as an example of irony.
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Is it ironic that A city known for its segregation actually has the most active peace-keeping and coexistence programs in the country?
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Is it ironic that A video rental store called "Family Video" has a back room of rentable pornography?
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Is it ironic that The Dept of Agriculture boasts that the distribute nearly 50 million free meals and food stamps to citizens on an annual basis.
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Is it ironic that When I use big words, people look at me like I'm an idiot?
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Is it ironic that This website cannot offer a clear definition of the word irony?
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Is it ironic that Everything we judge, especially the things we hate and people who disgust us, are mirrors that the universe shows us.
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Is it ironic that When I was driving my car I almost rear ended my ex husband at a stoplight and I said "that would have been ironic if I had hit him"