Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
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Examples for "sarcasm "
Examples for "sarcasm "
1 Duncan felt pleasantly surprised that she'd asked without either challenge or sarcasm .
2 Great, I said, trying to keep the sarcasm out of my voice.
3 I hope I'm not to blame!' Aemilia Fausta gurgled with girlish sarcasm .
4 Her words dripped sarcasm as she asked, And this is your plan?
5 Such a reservation in favor of his Majesty seemed a superfluous sarcasm .
1 We can also point to having led the way with political satire .
2 One notable absence from the program was political satire on Britain today.
3 Almost all American satire today follows a formula discovered by Harvey Kurtzman.
4 Of course, there's nothing new about satire : it's as old as politics.
5 When satire gets overtaken by reality, you know society is in trouble.
1 The premier's subtly caustic remark did not reflect the official stance.
2 In the past she would have been offended, drawn away, made some caustic remark .
3 Kenko would have had some caustic remark for that.
4 As she surveyed herself finally in the long glass, she flung out the somewhat caustic remark :
5 My assistant manager frowned at my caustic remark .
A dissimulation or ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
1 The great irony , of course, is that WorldCom's problems were only beginning.
2 The irony of the situation was not totally lost on him, however.
3 That's the irony in what is happening in the cable industry today.
4 There's a tragic irony there, seen from the Tibetans' point of view.
5 There is, to be sure, a keen irony to the UK situation.
6 As in the Euthydemus the irony is carried on to the end.
7 With supreme irony , this complexity led Canada to reject the UK proposal.
8 In a historic irony , democracy has brought together what apartheid rent apart.
9 Right now, especially, Paul, I imagine irony is much on your mind.
10 The familiar irony in commendations answers to this on the other side.
11 The irony is that Augusta should have been slightly easier this year.
12 Laurel contemplated this for a moment: The irony wasn't lost on her.
13 There was a pleasing irony yesterday morning in a place named Mzimhlophe.
14 Probably neither the priest nor the bandit saw the irony of it.
15 There is a grand and simple irony in this not easily surpassed.
16 However, there is somewhat of an irony in Caleb Clarke's rapid ascension.
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