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Example sentences for "sarcastic"

Lexicographically close words:
sapta; sapwood; saraband; sarcasm; sarcasms; sarcastical; sarcastically; sarce; sarcenet; sarch
  1. We found our sarcastic little skipper in the blandest and most urbane humour.

  2. They waxed loud, then cuttingly polite, then slaughteringly sarcastic and, at last, exceeding wroth.

  3. I turned for relief from the sarcastic father to the beautiful countenance of the daughter, and I there beheld an expression of intense sorrow that agonised me.

  4. Again the sarcastic double meaning was only for those two.

  5. Our patrician ventured to comment with sneers and innuendoes upon the fact that the lieutenant of dragoons continued missing, and he went so far as to indulge in a sarcastic prophecy that he never would be found.

  6. Notwithstanding these sarcastic remarks, our horse was now perceptibly moving.

  7. I burst into a sarcastic titter at Matilda's expense and my own "Of course I was a ninny," I scoffed at myself again and again.

  8. I retorted, testily, yet blushing She gave a sarcastic snort.

  9. The old face lit up with its tolerant, half-sarcastic smile.

  10. At the same time her half-sarcastic sense perceived that he was far better provided than Nelly, with the means of self-protection against his trouble.

  11. Thus they amused themselves with sarcastic sayings and jokes.

  12. After a few humorous and sarcastic remarks the petitions were referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

  13. The lively meetings rated plenty of publicity, complimentary in the Democratic papers but sarcastic and hostile in the Republican press.

  14. The scornful and sarcastic tone of Pendennis quite frightened and overcame the girl.

  15. Through the opened window, the crowd in the street below was sending up sarcastic remarks, such as "Pitch into him!

  16. He was one of those sarcastic young fellows that did not bear a laugh at his own expense, and of all things in the world feared ridicule most.

  17. Its accents touched Pen, much more than the menacing or sarcastic tone which Bows had commenced by adopting.

  18. Pen was sarcastic and dandified when he had been in the company of great folks; he could not help imitating some of their airs and tones, and having a most lively imagination, mistook himself for a person of importance very easily.

  19. Mrs. Devar's brows knitted; she was regaining her self-possession, and a sarcastic smile now chased away a perplexing thought.

  20. There is no mob so cruelly sarcastic as the British, and it may be that the revelers in the break envied the dusty chauffeur his pretty companion.

  21. That, and a sarcastic computation as to the difference between Ten Thousand and Four Hundred, constituted her knowledge of America.

  22. As for Marigny, his white teeth gleamed now in a sarcastic grin.

  23. A Chinese coffin-ship from 'Frisco would be hilarious compared with this trip," rapped a sarcastic voice from behind the silk handkerchief.

  24. She always changes her dress for dinner, you know," came in a sarcastic sneer from Split.

  25. I wish I had never re-opened your letter; that vein of sarcastic coolness which runs through it will never turn me from my purpose.

  26. I never pillaged you, Repton," said Niel, with a sarcastic smile.

  27. I only wished to know if you thought of marrying Frank Sheldon to Annie Evalyn, in preference to your own daughter," she exclaimed, in a biting, sarcastic tone.

  28. Because iniquity comes so prettily from your lips," replied she in a sarcastic tone.

  29. They call him a 'master of sarcastic eloquence.

  30. There was something else that you needed far more," said she, with a sarcastic sternness.

  31. His style had the merit of being terse, but his manner was sarcastic to the verge of impoliteness.

  32. Darcy's reply, delivered with a slow, sarcastic smile, provoked a laugh from the audience.

  33. Mary Seton, in the meantime, had been inspecting with sarcastic scrutiny the persons and accoutrements of all the competitors.

  34. Four epigrams of his, all couplets containing a sarcastic point of the same kind, are preserved in the Palatine Anthology.

  35. In a different vein is the sarcastic praise of Fortune for her exaltation of a worthless man to high honour, "that she might shew her omnipotence.

  36. But she, with many of her peers, was too rich in sarcastic common sense to be a precieuse ridicule.

  37. Tregars bid him remain silent, and, in a sarcastic tone, "Famous capture!

  38. A sarcastic smile appeared upon the lips of the editor of "The Pilot.

  39. This question gave occasion to a sarcastic smile from a person who stood near, who thought it was meant to convey a reproach.

  40. Pog-Reis, sitting opposite his companion, had also the same haughty, sarcastic manner.

  41. Meanwhile the lawyer was addressing the company in his smoothest and most sarcastic tones.

  42. She was invariably kind and cordial; sometimes slightly sarcastic and critical, but never moody or sad.

  43. As I uttered the last words, I saw her eyes flash, and a half sarcastic smile wreathe itself about her lips.

  44. Why must our mind at such times suffer the painful distraction of remembering the well-known sarcastic remark, that "the Rev.

  45. Racine has a sarcastic epigram on them, which M.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarcastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.