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SARCASM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Example:

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own

Synonyms:

caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sarcasm" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

Attribute:

sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

unsarcastic (not sarcastic)

Derivation:

sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

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 Context examples: 

I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-Gilead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)