An ironic statement.
Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
The food had an irony taste to it.
An instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
A kind of rolling walk.
Tasteless, flat.
To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.