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SARCASTIC

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

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Adjectives

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)

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 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)