- (an) irony; sarcasm; satire（▼ironyは逆の表現を用いる皮肉．sarcasmには相手を傷つけようとする悪意がある．satireは風刺）
皮肉な ironical; sarcastic; satirical
皮肉に ironically; in irony; sarcastically
- 皮肉を言う
- make ironical [sarcastic/snide/《口》 catty] remarks
- 皮肉で言ったんだ
- He intended his remark as irony.
- がんの名医が自らがんで死ぬとは皮肉だ
- It is an irony (of fate) that a great cancer doctor should die of cancer himself.
- 皮肉な笑いで
- with a sardonic [cynical] smile
- 彼は人間の本質を皮肉な目で見ている
- He is cynical about human nature.／He looks at human nature cynically [with a cynical eye].
- 皮肉屋〔いやみを言う人〕a sarcastic man；〔冷笑する人〕a cynic
