Sentence examples for wretched irony from inspiring English sources

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It is a wretched irony that Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon (who were to host the Moroccan poets) have been invited to Morocco for a literary festival this summer and they won't need visas.

It is unfair, for the wretched irony is that of the two codes, league is the more sharply organised, is far more at ease with itself, is run by more charming and imaginative folk and is played by more amenable fellows with not only more resplendent skills but with a more touching affection for, and pride in, their game.

(Yes, our sex life has been suffering, a wretched irony for a couple trying to conceive).

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("I don't need a lover," Cohen rattles, with weary irony, "the wretched beast is tame").

Even in paradise, the wretched Don is in hell – but of course not a ripple of irony disturbs his furrowed brow.

A sweet irony is that Uncle Richard is the only person who writes to Sophy at her wretched boarding school, posting every week straightforward factual letters giving her the small local news.

Irony, irony, irony.

And they were wretched.

O wretched state!

Beeber was wretched.

Conditions are wretched.

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