(1) As a child I thought nothing of seeing family members spanked harshly at gatherings, nor of friend’s dads countering displays of unapologetic backtalk with deadly-unfunny statements like, “Well, if you want, Jimmy, we can go upstairs and see if the belt agrees with you.” And nearly everyone’s dads told us the same thing, “You think your grandpa’s a sweet old man now, but he belted me harder than I’ve ever hit you.” This was an heirloom every generation gave to its next.
Sarcastic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Sarcastical
Example Sentences:
(1) As Robert Vittek put Slovakia 5-1 ahead on 59 minutes, hundreds were heading for the exits while many of the remaining fans sarcastically cheered the most routine saves from their goalkeeper.
(2) Persepolis , the Greek name for Persia, is desperately moving and extremely funny - a little girl's sarcastic love letter to her family.
(3) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
(4) Now, though, the staycationers are coming and the donkeys are less sarcastic.
(5) There's nothing defensive or snippy or sarcastic about his tone when he tells you that he can't act, or carries on as if his entire professional life is a kind of complicated mistake: he's actually rather charming company.
(6) "There's the side that wants to go along with it, but there's also a very sarcastic, sceptical side."
(7) They make sarcastic remarks about Reader being a so- called “master criminal”.
(8) "Here are the internet terrorists," their lawyer Rémy Josseaume sarcastically told the court in the southern town of Rodez on Tuesday.
(9) He does not have experience but he has potential.” Mourinho had a sarcastic comment for Fifa, after hearing that the governing body had made a statement about the on-going fallout from Mohamed Salah’s season-long loan move to Roma.
(10) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(11) From the opening lines of Vietnam, Grant's set was sad, funny, tortured, sarcastic and, frankly, pure bloody perfection.
(12) That match too had its moments – notably when the Serb made a sarcastic racket-slap in response to the crowd’s cheer for a double fault that led to a break in a sloppy second set.
(13) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho , has been fined after his sarcastic appraisal of officials following the defeat by Sunderland.
(14) But what Clegg's rightwing and leftwing critics miss, as do predictably sarcastic journalists, is that this is precisely the point.
(15) Or as CBS Sports' Zach Harper sarcastically noted : "Can't wait for that nationally televised Heat-Bobcats game coming up."
(16) He said Christie laughed and made a sarcastic joke when he learned of Sokolich’s distress over not getting his calls returned.
(17) Countering that complaint Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, sent what the Israeli mission called a “sarcastic letter” to the security council listing acts of incitement by the Palestinian leadership, including last month’s drive-by shooting of a Jewish activist who had pushed for greater Jewish access to the sacred hilltop compound.
(18) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
(19) Not only did it get a sarcastic jeer from the Tories, but it made Vince ratty.
(20) Here's where I should warn readers that I may sometimes be sarcastic.