[ adj ] expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds <adj.all>
Sarcastic \Sar*cas"tic\, Sarcastical \Sar*cas"tic*al\, a. Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world! --South.
He has tapped Dole, former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas _ sarcastic tormentors of the Democrats _ among others to rough up his opponent.
Ruml, one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent journalists, fell into disfavor after the Soviet-led invasion of August 1968 that crushed the liberVaculik, who made sarcastic comments about the Communist establishment.
The 285-146 vote came as angry words and sarcastic cries of `kill, kill, kill" rang out in protest over repeated victories by supporters of placing harsher death penalty provisions in the bill.
"You could probably come up with a sarcastic answer or two, depending on what type of a day you were having," says Mr. Dyer, an inmate at the Ionia reformatory doing time for armed robbery.
Sunny Azerbaijan Awaits You!" _ a sarcastic reference to Kremlin's dispatching soldiers to quell ethnic strife in the Soviet Caucasus.
We were not fighting, we were not being sarcastic or nasty.
Ms. Barr, who plays an earthy, sarcastic housewife in "Roseanne," had no comment on the lawsuit, said her publicist Lisa Kasteler.
The comedian-actress, who portrays a sarcastic, overweight housewife in her highly successful ABC television show, is seeking joint custody of the couple's three children.
"Key Air, Key Air," came the sarcastic chant from the press corps.
She has that same sarcastic kind of humor.
Abraham Lincoln is said to have coined "Michigander" in 1848 in a sarcastic speech.
"But it's not usually the kind of humor that is nasty, rude or sarcastic," said Ms. Carney.
That 1940 movie, you may recall, was Howard Hawks's brilliant retooling of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's sharp, sarcastic newspaper comedy, "The Front Page."