Thesaurus / sarcastic
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson regularly uses the word in sarcastic scare quotes.
YES, IT WAS AN INSURRECTIONAARON BLAKEJULY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTGen Z, for example, famously channeled their frustration with the generation they hold responsible for issues like climate change and wealth inequality into the simple, sarcastic meme “OK boomer.”
OLDER PEOPLE ARE THE ONE GROUP EGALITARIANS DISCRIMINATE AGAINSTSARAH TODDAPRIL 22, 2021QUARTZSometimes I say something sarcastic and I want to see your guys’ reaction and I can’t and some people might take it the wrong way.
RON RIVERA TRIES TO KEEP WASHINGTON FOCUSED AMID INCREASING CORONAVIRUS DISRUPTIONSNICKI JHABVALANOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt’s nothing they can’t fix with an episode or two apart and a heartfelt apology, but it’s the first time we ever see Rory sulking like an angry teenager and Lorelai going sarcastic and cutting.
EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOXSoon after they parted, with a sarcastic laugh from the Spaniard, and Ma'amselle mingled with the crowd.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERIf he had only been himself I should have had nothing more to desire, but he was in one of his bitter, sarcastic moods.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYThis, added to Woolf's sarcastic manner of speech, roused Trevithick's anger.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKHe obtained some success with the ladies by his sarcastic pleasantries in the fashion of the eighteenth century.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHELechmere grimly expressed his thanks, though the sarcastic force of the words and the wink were not lost on him.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEScotch wit is cutting, there is often a sarcastic thrust in it, sometimes even a little spice of malice.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLWORDS RELATED TO SARCASTIC
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
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