Word Finder - sarcasm

definition

Use of acerbic language to mock or convey contempt, often using irony and (in speech) often marked by overemphasis and a sneering tone of voice.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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An act of sarcasm.

She took his sarcasm as a sign that he felt better.

Kara took the joke seriously because she was too credulous to understand the sarcasm.

His voice held a hint of sarcasm.

It was hard to tell whether the sarcasm had gone over his head or he simply wasn't amused.

Dean ignored the sarcasm.

They do not read body language well and sarcasm is often misunderstood.

When she found her voice, it fairly dripped with sarcasm.

Children may exhibit a particular interest in the alphabet and words but they are unable to interpret verbal nuances like sarcasm and figurative language.

For the Love of Ray J combines sexiness, sarcasm and singing in a reality TV dating show that leaves little to the imagination.

To ignore sarcasm and the problem will not let it run away.

When giving feedback avoid sarcasm or highly negative remarks.

His thin, close lips often broke into a smile of sarcasm.

At least her words influenced the Reverend enough to carry on her lie and write her family in Boston," adding, with a hint of sarcasm, "without him using his return address."

She gave a tired smile and responded with gentle sarcasm, "I have been working the past few weeks, sir."

I'm being hugely and grossly unfair and employing needless sarcasm about this, aren't I?

Quickly, however, as they were despatched, they found time to hurl one last and bitter sarcasm at their adversaries.

The title change must be an early example of extreme sarcasm.

They had a forerunner in Luiz Antonio Verney, who poured sarcasm on the prevailing methods of education, and exposed to good effect the extraordinary literary and scientific decadence of Portugal in an epoch-making work, the Verdadeiro methodo de estudar.

His sarcasm is based on a belief that there is a contradiction at the heart of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 's program.

Turn off the sarcasm mode They are not great areas !

Let us not scruple to employ the weapons of ridicule and sarcasm in defense of free speech and reason.

If you're the kind of person that enjoys your humor with a dose of witty sarcasm, then free Maxine ecards are perfect for you.

They say what they mean without sarcasm or equivocation.

It's a big draw for teens and young adults who can appreciate the sarcasm.

He squinted his eyes with sarcasm.

His words were spoken with sarcasm, but not for the reason Alex probably thought.

But the society pursued its objects, undeterred by sarcasm.

In 1607 Gaspar Scioppius, then in the service of the Jesuits, whom he afterwards so bitterly libelled, published his Scaliger hypobolimaeus (" The Supposititious Scaliger"), a quarto volume of more than four hundred pages, written with consummate ability, in an admirable and incisive style, with the entire disregard for truth which Scioppius always displayed, and with all the power of his accomplished sarcasm.

Sure, Dean thought to himself, more in awe than sarcasm, Only a three-point-eight instead of four-oh.

Dean's voice had a cut of sarcasm in it.

Of course, some of you may have noticed a slight hint of sarcasm there?

His sarcasm is based on a belief that there is a contradiction at the heart of the Council for aboriginal reconciliation 's program.

He was also a good teacher and could use biting sarcasm to effect.

However, Twain's biting sarcasm makes it a good book for adults too.

Nonetheless, even in this section much of his exposition is ironic, sometimes shading off into heavy sarcasm.

Their specialty is a dark cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising core belief in the power of love.

I Descartes, with an, xnusual fondness for the letter of Scripture, quotes oftener than once in support of this monstrous doctrine the dictum, " the blood is the life "; and he remarks, with some sarcasm possibly, that it is a comfortable theory for the eaters of animal flesh.

He was a terse, able and lucid speaker, master of wit and sarcasm, and a fearless critic. He gave liberally to Cooper Union, of which he was trustee and secretary, and which owes much of its success to him; was a trustee of Columbia University from 1901 until his death, chairman of the board of trustees of Barnard College, and was one of the original trustees, first chairman of the board of trustees, and a member of the executive committee of the Carnegie Institution.

The lower usage of Apology (as expression of regret for a fault) has tipped many a sarcasm besides George III.'s on the occasion of Bishop Watson's book,, " I did not know that the Bible needed an apology!"

He was the author of a collection of epigrams called Cicuta (" hemlock") 1 from their bitter sarcasm, and of a beautiful epitaph on the death of Tibullus; of elegiac poems, probably of an erotic character; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a prose work on wit (De urbanitate).

His Vindication appeared in February 1779; and, as Milman remarks, " this single discharge from the ponderous artillery of learning and sarcasm laid prostrate the whole disorderly squadron " of his rash and feeble assailants.'

From this time forward he was engaged in a ceaseless polemic against every fresh advance of the Napoleonic power and pretensions; with matchless sarcasm he lashed "the nerveless policy of the courts, which suffer indignity with resignation"; he denounced the recognition of Napoleon's imperial title, and drew up a manifesto of Louis XVIII.

With a lively and fertile fancy Eupolis combined a sound practical judgment; he was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and Cratinus in his command of irony and sarcasm.

Swift he resembled in the occasional broadness of his humour, in his brilliantly successful use of sarcasm and irony, 2 and in his mastery of the hoax.

In his tragedie-ballet Circe (1576) he did not hesitate to indulge in the most outspoken sarcasm against the king and other members of the royal family.

He was an able, terse, forcible speaker, master of bitter sarcasm, irony, stinging ridicule, and, less often used, good-humoured wit.

His speeches were characterized by skill of statement, ingenious grouping of facts, fervent diction, and ardent patriotism; sometimes by biting sarcasm, but also by superficial research, half-knowledge and an unwillingness to reason a proposition to its logical results.

His keen intuition of truth, his vigour and yet sobriety of argument, his fertility of illustration and acuteness of sarcasm, made him irresistible to his antagonists; and the evanescent triumphs of scornful controversy have given place to the sedate applause of a long-lived posterity.

I 'm being hugely and grossly unfair and employing needless sarcasm about this, are n't I?

He 's poking fun, it 's sarcasm to get them to waken up to God really is.