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Word Meanings - IRONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. Woodward. 2. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

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  • SARCASM
    A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
  • PASQUINADE
    A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • RIDICULER
    One who ridicules.
  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • ESTEEM
    1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • TAUNTER
    One who taunts.
  • CONTUMELY
    Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
  • BADINAGE
    Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
  • LAMPOONER
    The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.
  • CONTEMPTIBLY
    In a contemptible manner.
  • CONTEMPTUOUSLY
    In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
  • RESPECTER
    One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
  • ESTEEMABLE
    Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
  • CONTEMPTUOUS
    Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
  • INVECTIVE
    Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
  • SARCASMOUS
    Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
  • CHAFFINCH
    A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • MISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • BY-RESPECT
    Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.

 

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