Words similar to sarcastic
Example sentences for: sarcastic
How can you use “sarcastic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Sweet, gentle, and never sarcastic, Kaufman was a kind of holy fool.
Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.
The question: Is Wallace a postmodern ironist, sarcastic to the point of annoyance?
However, they fall short in that their tone is sarcastic rather than malicious.
In the context of the book, Wickedly Funny must be interpreted as meaning cynical, bitter, sarcastic, though when it comes to people like Phyllis Diller, who is more vulgarly tragic (or tragically vulgar) than funny, it must include self-deprecating comments (Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves; My plastic surgeon told me my face looked like a bouquet of elbows).