Assertion: sarcasm | /r/HasProperty | event
Facets:
value: in its broadest sense
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
text: Irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects, and is often amusing as a result.
text: Irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning 'dissimulation, feigned ignorance'), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.