irony



agile wit, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, bifurcation, black humour, burlesque, caricature, causticity, comedy, conjugation, cynicism, dichotomy,

   seeing as how - as, because, for, inasmuch as, since, whereas ,

   oblique angle - angle, bend, bias, diagonal, oblique, rhomboid, slant, slash, transverse, virgule ,

   stun - amaze, anaesthetize, appal, astonish, astound, awake the dead, awe, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blast, blast the ear, blunt,

   make good - abide by, accomplish, achieve success, act up to, adhere to, advance, afford proof of, amend, arrive, ascertain, atone, atone for, attend to, be a success, be faithful to,

   flattop - carrier, cruiser, vessel ,

   ins - bureaucracy, directorate, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, holdover, incumbent, jack-in-office, lame duck, management, ministry, new broom, office-bearer, officeholder, officialdom,

   waters of bitterness - affliction, bitter pill, burden, care, cross, curse, distress, encumbrance, gall, grievance, infliction, load, oppression, pack of troubles, sorrow,

   miscellaneous - amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, dappled, different, disparate,

   spiking - corruption, cutting, lacing, pollution, watering ,

   pull towards - attract, drag, draw, lure, magnetize, pull, tug ,