What's the difference between bantering and sarcastic?

Bantering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
  • (2) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
  • (3) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
  • (4) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
  • (5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
  • (6) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (7) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
  • (8) Jack soon suspected that the cynical comments emanating from behind him belonged to a Manchester City supporter but, typically, enjoyed the banter.
  • (9) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
  • (10) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
  • (11) Gordon Brown spoke fluently and even managed some banter with cabinet colleagues.
  • (12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
  • (13) But instead of condemning such behaviour as sexist, the Bar Council chairman described it as “banter”.
  • (14) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (15) I tried to address it and have a bit of bunny-based banter with him: "Why are you wearing a full rabbit costume?"
  • (16) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
  • (17) "I've met all my colleagues this week so I've received a little bit of banter from them which has been good natured.
  • (18) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
  • (19) He added that the banter on Top Gear was an "imperfect science" that would "invariably upset some viewers at some point".
  • (20) Is banter the act of whispering "IDon'tFancyYouIDon'tFancyYou" with your eyes?

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.