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SARCASTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
Classified under:
Similar:
barbed; biting; mordacious; nipping; pungent (capable of wounding)
black; grim; mordant (harshly ironic or sinister)
corrosive (spitefully sarcastic)
sardonic; snarky (disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking)
satiric; satirical (exposing human folly to ridicule)
saturnine (bitter or scornful)
Also:
critical (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws)
disrespectful (exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous)
Attribute:
caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire (witty language used to convey insults or scorn)
Antonym:
unsarcastic (not sarcastic)
Derivation:
sarcasm (witty language used to convey insults or scorn)
Context examples:
Little friend, said he, in quite a changed tone—while his face changed too, losing all its softness and gravity, and becoming harsh and sarcastic—you have noticed my tender penchant for Miss Ingram: don't you think if I married her she would regenerate me with a vengeance?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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