词汇 | sarcastic |
释义 | sarcastic adjective uk /sɑːˈkæs.tɪk/ us /sɑːrˈkæs.tɪk/(UKinformalsarky) C2 using remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what you say, in order to hurt someone's feelings or to humorously criticize something: 讽刺的,嘲笑的,挖苦的 a sarcastic comment/remark尖刻的评论/话 Are you being sarcastic?你在挖苦人吗? Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour boo disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile slam there you goidiom union-basher Related wordsarcastically Examples of sarcasticsarcastic Even seemingly highminded action must be probed by this sarcastic mistrust, until true motives are revealed. Low scores were characterized by apathetic, indifferent, irritable, sarcastic, or denigrating behavior toward the child. Sarcastic expressions are also considered in this chapter, and rightly so because they can be viewed as ambiguous. Clearly she had not understood the sarcastic nature of the cooks' compliments. That is why colonial society is such an appropriate field for sarcastic demystification. An all too common feature of his discussion is a use of nearly malicious language for the description of particularly terrible facts, which is presumably intended to be sarcastic detachment. As we will see in section 3, the past tense is used here for reasons of discourse tentativeness, although it may also be meant to be sarcastic. For example, a speaker may expect an addressee to appreciate that she is being sarcastic even when the addressee cannot reasonably know that this is what the speaker intended. Nothing but sarcastic comments and criticisms came from these benches and from the political class while the media maintained a scornful silence. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The foreman was quite sarcastic about the defects on this type of car. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not let us be too sarcastic about these beginnings of an international force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether that interjection was sarcastic or not, the thing is true. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I entirely accept that; my remarks were genuine and not meant to be sarcastic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was not being sarcastic about human rights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We differ profoundly on many issues, but we have never been sarcastic to each other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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