sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

sarcasm | American Dictionary

sarcasm
noun[ U ]
us/ˈsɑrˌkæz·əm/
literature
remarks that mean the opposite of what they say, made to criticize someone or something in a way that is amusing to others but annoying to the person criticized:
biting/heavy sarcasm

sarcastic

adjectiveus/sɑrˈkæs·tɪk/
sarcastic comments

Examples of sarcasm

sarcasm
However, their implicit sarcasm maintains the threat of allencompassing alienation.
Speech coded as devaluing is characterized by belittling, criticism, mocking sarcasm, or derogatory or condescending language.
Talk is cheap: sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution of language.
The book's darkness, fluttered momentarily by sarcasm, punctured in places by genuine humour or brilliant observation, is at once its triumph and a major problem.
One suspects that all the clerks, related or not, feared the first secretary's lashing tongue : sarcasm and irony could be effective instruments of discipline.
Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.
How children understand sarcasm : the role of context and intonation.
Differential effect of right- and left-hemisphere damage on understanding sarcasm and metaphor.
Humor or sarcasm are sometimes used to reject other family members in high scoring families.
People feel that it makes them vulnerable to sarcasm and irony.
Unable to use such devices as 'sarcasm' and 'banter', she had to resort to other means to assert her authority.
Irony, sarcasm, and humour are some of the attitudinal effects available through the creative use of idiomaticity.
On the micro level, the teacher draws attention to contradictions, irony, humor, and sarcasm in search of charged linguistic expressions that are the product of deeply ingrained values.
For example, if a compliment is uttered in a mocking tone, it loses its sincerity because the sarcasm overrides the form and literal content of the message.
On the other hand, in the lessons with girls and working-class students, she finds more indirection, related to covert discipline strategies or to sarcasm as a control mechanism.
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