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SARCASM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn
Example:
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
Synonyms:
caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sarcasm" is a kind of...):
humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)
Attribute:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
unsarcastic (not sarcastic)
Derivation:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
Context examples:
I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-Gilead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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