How To Use Sarcastic In A Sentence

  • I phrased it as a sarcastic taunt, but I genuinely wanted to know the answer.
  • If a game that stars a 6-foot-tall, fedora-wearing dog and a sarcastic "rabbity thing" sounds like an entertaining combination, then you'll ... gaming | Comment | Recommend Video Games: Product Reviews, News, & Online Arcade - USATODAY.com
  • He could be eloquent and lighthearted but also incisive and sarcastic with those who failed to live up to his high medical standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • To make things worse, two sarcastic and sassy FBI agents are also hot on Ford's trail.
  • Usually I was so depressed on that day that I could find it in myself to be sarcastic, which meant it wasn't worth the dealing with the imbecile morons that attended Tucker High.
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  • Looking at the film now, it works beautifully as pure family entertainment, heavy on the sarcastic wit and full of unadulterated corn, cheese and hokum, especially in the final family group-hug scene.
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • While I am a very blunt and untactful sometimes sarcastic person, one post he deleted from a gauyu named “Fred” simply said something to the effect of: The Volokh Conspiracy » Responses to Comments
  • In fact, the only laughter he had heard from her was either scornful or sarcastic, and was usually directed at him.
  • If you don’t want sarcastic commentary on the nonsensical aspects of the entertainment industry, I’d suggest ew is not the place for you. Kate Gosselin interview bingo: Get ready for another cliche-fest | EW.com
  • Responding to this personal attack, Paul's comments are a sarcastic rebuttal of the denunciations of his victims.
  • Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
  • I am now being told the blogger is a nat and being sarcastic. The Dream is Over?
  • This carriage, too, drove away, and the urchins gave another sarcastical cheer. Vanity Fair
  • I get my sarcastic sense of humour from her. The Sun
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • She is so sarcastic and cynical that I am happy to take the smile off her face.
  • If I hadn't stumbled on a link one day that led me to a snarky sarcastic blonde doing something that resemebled cable access on crack, I would never have made RB one of my daily fixes and BTY, I am one of those conservative viewers you told John Edwards you were trying to "alienate" - obviously it didn't work. For the Record
  • Although Freyen was more of a laid-back character, Marlo completed the duo with his smart remarks and sarcastic jokes.
  • I tried to think of a nasty sarcastic comment to make him leave me alone, but none came to mind.
  • A few years ago, a clever webhead created a site advocating the use of what he called the sarcastic font. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • It was so great to start comparing notes about this faith of ours, to be funny and sarcastic and attitudinally challenged about it, and still be people who could be devoted to God. An Interview with Anne Lamott
  • He can be sarcastic and severe without becoming offensive; his reproof often takes the form of humorous banter.
  • Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour. Harry's Place
  • His sarcastic comment brought her out of her reverie like a bucket of cold water.
  • I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
  • ‘Woof woof,’ Reiko barked sarcastically from the bathroom doorway.
  • I'd rather stay my cynical, sarcastic, bitchy, and satirist self.
  • She has a dry, slightly sarcastic wit and laughs a lot, and loudly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • An ironic and sarcastic grin flashed upon her oval face as she announced the name of the horse.
  • Gone are the grimy beats, the sarcastic vocals and nonsensical lyricism, replaced by inspiring rhythms and lyrics laced with celebration and regret.
  • With a sarcastic ‘thanks’, she flounces off the bus.
  • I squashed him with a sarcastic remark.
  • It infuses his writing, tempering his cleverness with a good measure of sarcastic honesty.
  • In addition to gaining seriousness, the genial, good-natured boy becomes a sarcastic and bitter man.
  • Occasional crimes such as bad temper, drunken snogs with the wrong person, unreliability or sarcastic remarks can be placed in a context of general human failing.
  • Nick and I spend most of the waking hours of the day bickering, sniping, and being sarcastic with one another.
  • And by the time I was cracking eggs into the pan to go with a pile of toast, he was larking about, making sarcastic remarks about the Queen Mother and her 101st birthday, and it was clear no harm had been done.
  • Mysticism, the introducer said sarcastically, is nothing; but a history of nothing - well, that is science.
  • While often sarcastic and satirical, Hendrie sounded very serious about this offer.
  • Your skits and spoken-word pieces about music tend to have a sarcastic edge.
  • He would have been proud, but he'd have been really sarcastic as well about how we look in photographs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gracien laughed and joked a lot, Eva was smiling and quiet, and Rosie was funny in a sarcastic manner.
  • The question issuing from Shitworth Whitworth MA, a sarcastic man who appeared to have been overwound, whose skin vibrated like a percussion instrument when he was upset, and who owned the biggest collection of detachable stiff white collars, always worn with blue and pink striped shirts, and always half a size too tight, any of us had ever seen. Kalooki Nights
  • Hearing a sarcastic note in his voice, she swung around to face him.
  • Sarah couldn't help but make the snide and sarcastic remark to him to show her hatred.
  • Hearing a sarcastic note in his voice, she swung around to face him.
  • It was going to be weird without her sarcastic comments and worries about her looks.
  • You are definitely right, I am sarcastic, but I would avoid the term judgmental, cynical is more like it, but I think i have reason to be, walk into any coffee shop these days and 9 time out of 10 they will try to sell you something you don't want. NEW SOYMILK MAKER, NEW, CREAMIER SOYMILK RECIPE
  • I shall ignore your sarcastic tone. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Monday, Cameron leaned across the Despatch Box as he sarcastically offered Brown opposition parliamentary time for part-privatisation of the Post Office, which, it is said, is being "jostled" out of the government's agenda. New Statesman
  • The "bhai", when sarcastically affixed to a Gujju name, especially by a non-Gujju, reflects a certain state of Gujju being: well-fed and flashy WN.com - Business News
  • So far then: no to adjectives being crucially involved, but yes to positives being used sarcastically to express negatives rather than the other way around.
  • The boys tended to make the men peevish and sarcastic, the girls made Emma brittle and shrewish.
  • It was a cruel _snouch_ in the Painter, a fine Girl having paid him seventy-five guineas for an hour's work, and being unable to pay for the other half of her portrait, to exhibit her with such a sarcastic allusion to her private life -- to call her Thais -- to put a torch in her hand, and direct her to set flames to the temple of Chastity. Highways and Byways in Surrey
  • Well what a great way to produce profit: oversale the likelihood of catastrophe; and if it occurs the state has helped pay for it I wonder how, sarcastic grin; and if it does not happen, you will have recieved all those premiums and state money. Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit
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  • I'm sarcastic, cynical, and completely untrusting.
  • In the most virulent homophobic works gays are effeminate, sarcastic males who lead meaningless lives; they disrupt families, are misogynists, and are marginal to black communities and institutions.
  • How are you supposed to follow the story when you're constantly making sarcastic comments about the hammy acting?
  • I was tempted to launch a sarcastic commentary about the difference between nerds and geeks, and their ineffectual nature as insults, but decided it probably wouldn't help.
  • What a surprise!" Caroline murmured sarcastically.
  • With greetings of hope and yet of sarcastic mockery the crowd cheered his emerging form.
  • “I prefer the term manny, Dezba,” I answered, half sarcastically, as I turned toward her. Crossed
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • "Nice shot, " Kristin said sarcastically with a grin.
  • While they struggle with those threatening to demolish the colony, their adopted teenage child Zoe ignores the big picture; instead she has fun with her boyfriend Enzo and her sarcastic best friend Gretchen while flirting with her Obin bodyguards. Zoe’s Tale-John Scalzi « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • He is a dark, strange-looking man -- strong and large -- of the brigand stamp, with fine eyes and lowering brows -- blunt and sarcastic in his manners, with a kind of misanthropical frankness, which seems based upon utter contempt for his fellow-creatures and a surly truthfulness which is more rudeness than honesty. Famous Reviews
  • ‘Love you too, honey,’ Beau said sarcastically before turning to Anica with a sigh.
  • Instead of shrugging his shoulders, he became agitated and a sarcastic torrent of words flew out.
  • ‘You can be taught by the master… free of charge,’ he said sarcastically with a cheesy game show smile.
  • He was dressed remarkably plain; seemed to be turned of fifty; had a careless air, and a sarcastical turn in his countenance. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • I have two jokes in my repertoire and one sarcastic prayer which always goes down well up North. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Since your last remark provides nothing other than a sarcastic "thanks" that wrongly suggests I was lecturing you, I will try not to conflagrate this incendiary issue any further. Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
  • Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.
  • She falls into Hatch's lap, literally, as he and his sarcastic partner Deedee the monotonal Kelly Overton investigate Elise's shooting of an intruder in her house. The Guide to Wednesday TV: Two New Comedies to Hate, the Whitechapel Finale
  • She said there was a thick layer of dust underneath her bed and a cleaner had made a sarcastic comment to her.
  • He was funny, quick-witted and very sarcastic. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor expected a shrug, stony silence or some sort of sarcastic hiss.
  • Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.
  • Luckily, as an internet writer, I am an authority on this subject, and for once I don't mean that sarcastically.
  • Tonight he was booked for an innocuous enough challenge, then sent off as a second bookable offence for clapping sarcastically.
  • After getting copies of the Constitution, sarcastic suggestions, and "some phone calls that were just purely profanity-screaming," Upper Moreland's police chief has dropped the idea of fining people who fail to lock their cars. Phillies Zone
  • Further, your attempt at being either insulting or sarcastic is duly noted, and not at all impressive. Think Progress » “Get it out.”
  • Cuomo and his bandmates exhibit both gentle and self-deprecatingly sarcastic behavior.
  • The campaign works hard to adopt a glib and sarcastic voice familiar to many young people.
  • I was tired of holding a grudge that was only causing me to be bitter and sarcastic.
  • Beck spent most of his Wednesday show sarcastically and sanctimoniously questioning why only fourteen members of Congress have signed his pledge against violence, in spite of exhaustive efforts by his staff to call members of Congress and get them to sign it. Chris Rodda: Hey, Mr. Beck, Maybe Congress Just Doesn't Think You're All That Important
  • Another challenge from Moore, this time to Lord Byron for his sarcastic reference to the "leadless pistols" used in the meeting with Jeffrey resulted in another close friendship between "hostile forces". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • She was dying to say something sarcastic to him, but bit her tongue and stayed silent.
  • She was dying to say something sarcastic to him, but bit her tongue and stayed silent.
  • Unable to give a sarcastic comment, she settled with glaring at him.
  • People get so stuck on semantics, using the term knit graffiti is a sarcastic or fun play on words but looking at how graffiti is evolving beyond just a scratched painted image, why can’t yarnbombing be called graffiti, just as light can be called light graffiti etc. Knit that Shit!
  • A few years ago, a clever webhead created a site advocating the use of what he called the sarcastic font. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • It was hard not to notice that Axelrod's response echoes a memorable, bitingly sarcastic line from a Clinton campaign swing through Rhode Island in March 2008. White House Rhetoric On Bipartisanship Echoes Clinton's In 2008
  • (Leia can come too if she behaves herself and controls those sarcastic eyebrows).
  • And hence this friendship gave occasion to many sarcastical remarks among the domestics, most of which were either proverbs before, or at least are become so now; and, indeed, the wit of them all may be comprised in that short Latin proverb, “Noscitur a socio”; which, I think, is thus expressed in English, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • In the corridor the youngsters give a sarcastic cheer.
  • We take a look at the world of entertainment, pointing at various public figures and being all sarcastic.
  • Rooney was barracked upon his substitution midway through the second half, appearing to applaud all sides of the ground sarcastically as he departed, though others in the 72,024 crowd sought to drown out the catcalls with applause. Capello calls time on David Beckham's England career in brutal fashion
  • The writing was excellent, with Verity's sarcastic one-liners to customers simply rolling off the tongue.
  • I desperately wanted to seem worldly, cool, suave, and debonair—sarcastically pronounced “deboner” around the eighth-grade girl’s lunch table. Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart
  • This is precisely one of those compositions that a cold, clear, shrewd, and sarcastic critic would delight in clutching into his merciless grasp, to tear it into pieces and strew the floor of his study with its shivering fragments. Review
  • Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
  • An astute mixture of laughter and tears, the screenplay constantly pulls back from the edge of outright sentimentality with a sarcastic one-liner or a cheeky remark.
  • '_The Corinthian_,' another snarling watch-dog in the courts of the temple of Fame, followed instinctively the same injurious wake: it was a leisurely sarcastic anatomization, quite enough to blight any young candidate's prospects, supposing that mankind respected such a verdict; if not to make him cut his throat, granting that the victim should be sensitive as Keats. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Childlike like Rose, Sarcastic like Sophia, Intellectual like Dorothy ... and I have been known to have my Blanche moments\n\u003c/div\ ",1]); D ([" mb "," \u003cspan class\u003dq\\n\u003cdiv\ \u003c/div\\n\u003cdiv\7. Volunteer Profiles (China 12-13) « Peace Corps: China
  • They were incredibly sarcastic and mocking, and their general treatment of you was so demeaning.
  • Next time don’t use the word maximal and then get on others for sarcastically using the word you used. “Give me liberty or give me social justice” revisited
  • I don’t know why you feel that being insulting and sarcastic is productive. Why I Am Not a Poet-Mom : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • Ann says or, more accurately, implies that the word "sarcastic" is code for step back, little lady. "Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing--few if any would ever vote for McCain--but all agree that Palin was very strong."
  • He has an edge and has to restrain himself from being nasty, sarcastic and disparaging about people. The Sun
  • To satirize the sycophants among his courtiers, King Canute sarcastically commanded the waves to keep their distance and allowed his own majesty to be wetted by the tides: now we give the name Canute to anyone in authority who foolishly attempts to ward off the inevitable. Demons and Dictionaries
  • We went to visit his mother afterwards and he made sarcastic comments for the whole two-hour car journey. The Sun
  • Our personalities are very similar and we have the same humour: quite sarcastic. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘Yum,’ Kimberly grinned sarcastically, and was met with a reproachful look from Gabe.
  • Every member of the cast shines at varying intensities: Ms. McAdams as a young almost-married who's lively and attractive, albeit a scold; Kurt Fuller as Inez's acidulous father; Mimi Kennedy as her dryly sarcastic mother; and, in lesser roles, Nina Arianda, Tom Hiddleston, Daniel Lundh and Michel Vuillermoz. We'll Always Have Allen's 'Paris'
  • She was not inclined to answer any questions without a sarcastic undertone or shortness with me.
  • The two churches of Vaccarizza, dark and unclean structures, stand side by side, and I was shown through them by their respective priests, Greek and Catholic, who walked arm in arm in friendly wise, and meekly smiled at a running fire of sarcastic observations on the part of another citizen directed against the "bottega" in general -- the _shop, _ as the church is sometimes irreverently called. Old Calabria
  • He was a man of violent temper and sarcastic tongue, a strict disciplinarian, and ruthless in his exactions.
  • He has also restricted traditional public access to City Hall and demanded civility and politeness from traditionally sharp-tongued and sarcastic New Yorkers.
  • That is not only an invidious, but a sarcastical and barbarous A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753
  • The barbed compliment, the sarcastic compliment, the compliment that turns on someone else present, the compliment that's supposed to erase months or years of ill-treatment ... and then the complimenter can turn to others and say, "I was just trying to be nice. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • Listen here, honeybunch ," she murmured sarcastically, "I'm not your sweetheart or anything else. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
  • I can't think of a post sarcastic enough to do justice to this absurdity at the moment.
  • `Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically
  • There's nothing complex or sarcastic about American Hi-fi, from their utterly straightforward band name to the good-time rock sound of their Bob-Rock-produced, eponymous debut.
  • And the moral of the story is, don't ask sarcastic expats for money at midnight, when they're bevvied up.
  • When company came to Castlewood, he entertained them handsomely, and was of a very pleasant, sarcastical turn. The Virginians
  • He felt guilty for pushing her to her limits and sarcastically making his snide remarks.
  • I'm not sure he says anything that isn't slightly sarcastic. Times, Sunday Times
  • I tried to talk to him but he got really sarcastic and nasty with me. The Sun
  • `I can see you're not exactly familiar with the leading edge of modern technology,' I said sarcastically. DEAD BEAT
  • Now his monotone delivery sounds almost sarcastic. Times, Sunday Times
  • I spent an hour writing a post about this and it was all sarcastic and snarky and I was very proud of it.
  • When people are sarcastic or rude, it just says that that's how they feel about themselves.
  • The key is to make the party interesting for everyone there; crying babies, restless toddlers, rambunctious grade school kids and sarcastic pre-teens.
  • I'm cynical and sarcastic because that's often the safest way to go in many situations.
  • True, not everybody loves her; there are some who taunt Martha with sarcastic parodies, bilious caricatures, and scathing articles.
  • Although Siaguru's urbanity and often sarcastic wit will make the book engaging reading for Europeans with a concern for the fate of the nation, I suspect it will be less attractive for all but a handful of Melanesian readers.
  • His tone was lightly sarcastic.
  • Everything is smart and sarcastic and divisive and nasty and cutesy.
  • He couldn't figure how sensibly clothed, satirical, sarcastic, sassy Jo had come from this hippy woman standing in front of him.
  • She ended the text with what police described as a sarcastic "awesome. Wife and Children Among Victims of Shooter in Santa Suit, Police Say
  • She couldn't be sarcastic and crack jokes when it's not appropriate, that's just not who she is.
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • Responding to this personal attack, Paul's comments are a sarcastic rebuttal of the denunciations of his victims.
  • The tone becomes increasingly strident until a reprise of the opening is followed by a moment of calm that precedes a violent and sarcastic conclusion.
  • True, not everybody loves her; there are some who taunt her with sarcastic parodies, bilious caricatures, and scathing articles.
  • * I hope it is clear that wherever I use the word "fuckable" in all its permutations, I do so sarcastically, derisively even. Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs!
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • And when that draws sarcastic comment from the management team, his ability to offer quick-witted retorts allows him to ride the banter as effortlessly as another lunge from a desperate defender.
  • He accompanied this with so sarcastical a laugh, that Mrs. Western could bear no longer. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Marrying thought provoking lyrics with great melodies and his trademark acoustic guitar playing, his music is underlined with an acerbic and sometimes sarcastic wit.
  • The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • Go to johnmccain. com, where the lead item is what can best be described as a sarcastic Valentine's Day eCard declaring that "The media is in LOVE" with Obama. Robert Silvers: The Loneliest Reporter
  • A burglar who stole presents from a York family has been sent a sarcastic message of thanks for ruining their Christmas.
  • They are questions that he will need to answer with more than a sarcastic quip. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jeong is either gonna be a straight laced, sarcastic uptight guy who gets annoyed like in knocked up or an Asian caricature. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong Cast in Transformers 3 | /Film
  • These intimate letters introduce us to a man who's not only inordinately interesting, but also vain, funny, abrasive, sarcastic and courageous.
  • A stocky man who was seated near the head of the table was voicing his sarcastic opinion.
  • The poster, writing in Farsi, sarcastically says Ahmadinejad is displaying his English fluency: Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18)
  • 'I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition -- to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny! Lance Mannion:
  • Throughout the trial he evinced a range of carefully calibrated emotions - caustic, sarcastic, disbelieving and, at this moment, outraged.
  • Bobby and Tina began exchanging insulting, sarcastic remarks.
  • He'd never called me David before, and there was no mistaking the sarcastic sneer in his voice.
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • He needled her with his sarcastic remarks
  • He has an edge and has to restrain himself from being nasty, sarcastic and disparaging about people. The Sun
  • The older slang meaning of the phrase is a hollow sarcastic obedience.
  • Intransigent towards ecstatics, sarcastic towards Catholics, intractable towards heretics, Calvinism participated unwittingly in the disenchantment of the world.
  • From the hard-edged and sarcastic Lucy Liu in Ally McBeal to the martial arts expert Kelly Hu in Martial Law and Shanghai Noon, Asian women are increasingly visible on television screens and in Hollywood films.
  • I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth.
  • It was an hour long comedy/drama about a smart, disaffected, sarcastic girl in her early twenties who had graduated from Brown University and, completely unmotivated, worked in a gift shop at Niagara Falls.
  • In the final minutes of her first Supreme Court term, Justice Elena Kagan delivered a full-blast dissent, using pointed, colloquial, sometimes sarcastic language rarely seen from the court's liberal minority to lacerate the conservative majority in a campaign-finance case. Kagan Gives New Life to Court's Liberal Wing
  • She belittled me in front of other team members, was extremely sarcastic and passive aggressive towards me.
  • But no more than the sacristan is the hemp-dresser gifted solely with the desire of frightening; he loves to make people laugh; he is sarcastic and sentimental at need, when love and marriage are to be sung. Appendix. I. A Country Wedding
  • And my father began to speak hurtfully, sarcastically to me.
  • he enquired in a furiously sarcastic e-mail that was so long it must have taken half the day to tap out on his BlackBerry.
  • Well, _Mister_ Paine," he cried, sarcastically stressing the title, "are n't you man enough to unlay a bit of rope and make a Flemish eye? The Mutineers
  • She only had a sarcastic and cynical servant, and a touchy hippogriff.
  • Here I was telling him something that was quite major and he had the cheek to be sarcastic.
  • I felt completely squashed by her sarcastic comment.
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 
  • I wrote various rough drafts, too many of them sarcastic.
  • I could see from her expression that his sarcastic comments had hit home.
  • I put emphasis on the word fun, twisting it so that it sounded chiding and sarcastic.
  • All I could do was weep like a little girl and wait for the swelling to go down while promising never to engage in sarcastic bastardry again. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Indeed, such is the power of gesture that a wink or a sarcastic intonation inevitably reframes and inverts the ‘literal’ meaning.
  • I did not use the term fancy doctor to be sarcastic. 18-foot hedges and a motion sensor
  • I was wary of her when she first started as the minion of our group at work but we became close through our appreciation of food and sarcastic wit, which no one else quite understood.
  • Nicabar declared sarcastically as he pushed his coffee aside and picked up a half full bottle of alcohol.
  • He drinks in his mess, is coarsely sarcastic at home, neglects his worn-down wife, and evidently rules his wayward children harshly.
  • It's more irreverent, sarcastic, and caustic than what I'm used to hearing from Army officer wives I knew - and female Army officers in dual-military couples.
  • He read it out loud to his colleagues, quite sarcastically, expecting them to agree that it was ridiculous.
  • In the corridor the youngsters give a sarcastic cheer.
  • The pattern of caustic complaints and sarcastic responses slowly gave way to a new pattern of care toward one another.
  • The Authors seemed to search for Opportunities to introduce hints and sarcastical Allusions to the frivolities, Vanity, Affectation, follies and prejudices of their own Nation. John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778

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