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Example sentences for "sarcastically"

Lexicographically close words:
saraband; sarcasm; sarcasms; sarcastic; sarcastical; sarce; sarcenet; sarch; sarched; sarcina
  1. Whereupon Methuselah mocked them sarcastically in tones that suggested the indelicacy of laughing at a dying friend.

  2. His mother mentioned the scholarship less frequently nowadays in her letters and his father asked sarcastically whether they taught anything besides football at Ferry Hill, but was secretly very proud of his son's success in that line.

  3. He felt himself to be politely or sarcastically quizzed.

  4. With the words he bowed a little sarcastically to Mrs. Tresham's husband, and afterward spoke no more to him.

  5. The King of Ireland sought aid in vain from his kinsmen, the northern Hy Neill, whose king Aedh, or Hugh, sarcastically remarked that when his clan had held the chief kingship they had known how to defend their own.

  6. Bellingham sarcastically refuted their argument, 'in which your experience bitterly condemneth my ignorance.

  7. Of course Lepidus armed in Etruria not for the senate, but for the insurrection-- sarcastically declaring that the oath which he had taken bound him only for the current year.

  8. This not otherwise known Clodius must have been in all probability a wretched imitator of Terence, as those words sarcastically laid at his door "O fortuna, O fors fortuna!

  9. He maintained a corresponding state in his way of living, at the expense of a sneer from some, who sarcastically contrasted this ostentatious profusion with the economical reforms he subsequently introduced into the finances.

  10. The element of bargain or contract which Socrates so sarcastically emphasised, here drops away.

  11. The conviction grew stronger that the initiated would have a happier lot in the life to come, so that Diogenes sarcastically inquired whether an initiated robber would be better off than an uninitiated honest man.

  12. She is giving testimony in this case," sarcastically answered the counsel for the accused.

  13. The Emperor arrived on the scene at the moment the Marshal had just succeeded in staying the rout, and sarcastically inquired, "Is that the scientific manoeuvre by which you were going to make the Archduke lay down his arms?

  14. But Macdonald at once returned to its aid and saved the artillery, for, as he sarcastically wrote to Victor, "he found neither friends nor foes.

  15. But," he sarcastically added, "gentlemen require something to live upon.

  16. She sarcastically observed that she would like to see me trade him out of those beautiful horses.

  17. When I entered into particulars concerning the wreck she became greatly disgusted, and sarcastically remarked: "I am really surprised that you had sense enough to come home before losing your last dollar.

  18. He seems to have told you a fearful lot," John sarcastically exclaimed.

  19. I suppose," John said sarcastically to the commissionaire, "you don't want me to swear an affidavit about it?

  20. I added that it was pretty slipshod business for a going concern, supposing--sarcastically now--that the Arrowhead was a going concern.

  21. I shall have the charity not to let her become a fine lady like you, Edith," he sarcastically answered.

  22. What a calumny is here upon the Legislature," he sarcastically exclaimed.

  23. Mazarin smiled sarcastically at this speech, which showed that she had taken the minister's proposal seriously.

  24. He smiled more and more sarcastically and his smile began to make the Gascon anxious.

  25. Lord Orford sarcastically apologised, in the second edition of his "Royal and Noble Authors," for his omission of any notice of this production.

  26. This cynical minister of the king ridicules his youthful exploits, and sarcastically assured the hero, that "he has come to a worse matter now, should he dare to pass the space of one night with the fiend.

  27. Tyrwhit sarcastically observes, that the duchess might have been a purist.

  28. A Christian Socialist clergyman sarcastically proposes: "If you are a Christian and love your rich neighbour as yourself, you will do all you can to help him to become poorer.

  29. I am not such a fool as to put myself on a level with Varlamov," answered Solomon, looking sarcastically at the speaker.

  30. Setting the tray on the table, he looked away sarcastically with the same queer smile as before.

  31. You should just listen to the factory hands; they can teach you goodness," Aglaia said sarcastically as she washed the floor (she usually washed the floors on working days and was always angry with everyone when she did it).

  32. Oh how sarcastically were these words pronounced!

  33. On all other topics she is sarcastically indifferent and scornfully mute.


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