sarcasm

Example Sentences

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She replied, with a hint of sarcasm, that “maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Our conversations are typically built on competitive sarcasm.

From Literature

I guess she misses my sarcasm, because she smiles.

From Literature

But now a cadre of them is ditching carefully worded communiqués in favor of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm—in English.

From The Wall Street Journal

But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.

From The Wall Street Journal