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Sarcastic

SARCAS'TIC

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sarcastic

sarcastic

See also: sarcàstic

English

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Adjective

sarcastic (comparative more sarcastic, superlative most sarcastic)

  1. Containing sarcasm.
  2. (of a person) Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.
    • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
      Her eyes slanted a little... and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque. Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic.

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References

  • sarcastic” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  • sarcastic” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007)
  • "sarcastic" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • sarcastic” in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Romanian

Etymology

French sarcastique

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sarˈkastik]

Adjective

sarcastic m, n (feminine singular sarcastică, masculine plural sarcastici, feminine and neuter plural sarcastice)

  1. sarcastic

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Adverb

sarcastic

  1. sarcastically

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