Fill in the blanks with suitable words to make the sentence ironical. The steak in the plate was so that I could see through it. I was surprised to find his room as as a pigsty. He ruled the country for about 40 years and was said to be as as Ivan the Terrible, the first Russian Tsar. It is amazing how these countries can so quickly from affluence to poverty. We waited for him to make up his mind, but he turned out to be as as Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark.