What's the difference between quip and sarcastic?

Quip


Definition:

  • (n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
  • (v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.
  • (v. i.) To scoff; to use taunts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
  • (2) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
  • (3) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
  • (4) Keates quipped that the only positive thing she could think to say about the education secretary was that he was the union's "new poster boy", citing the surge in recruitment since he took over the department.
  • (5) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (6) How to stop Donald Trump: women may hold the solution Read more If she believes that Trump’s criticism of women is not “gender-specific”, as she said in a CNN interview , can she tell us whether her father would ever quip that a male doctor graduated from “Baywatch Medical School ”?
  • (7) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
  • (8) That prompted a drummer in his studio band to storm off the stage in mock outrage while bandleader Kevin Eubanks quipped: "Jay, you're messing around on me?"
  • (9) 'A modern revolutionary group headed for the television, not for the factory,' quipped the late Abbie Hoffman, one of the great political pranksters of 1968who helped provoke a bloody battle between anti-war protesters and the Chicago police force at the Chicago Democratic convention.
  • (10) "That's Putin for you – just divorced and already looking for new adventures," one Israeli diplomat quipped.
  • (11) There are two things you need to know about David Nicholson, runs the health service quip about the NHS chief executive.
  • (12) We still want your money.” 'The question was stupid': Hungarians on the refugee referendum Read more The quip is a reminder that while this weekend’s referendum in Hungary was born from similar frustrations to the Brexit vote in June, the Hungarian right does not want to leave the EU.
  • (13) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
  • (14) Bill Shorten quip on lettuce leaves the vegetable starring in national debate Read more State government support would be needed to implement that package, but some have already ruled out supporting an increase.
  • (15) quips Andy Daly, a statement that needs no punchline, but he delivers one anyway.
  • (16) Just from looking at Boris Johnson you can tell that British hairdressing is not doing so well,” quipped one.
  • (17) "Young people were born free; soon they may be everywhere in chains," Hands quipped in an oblique reference to academy chains.
  • (18) Pressed on the issue at prime minister's questions, Cameron quipped that Labour had promised to fund the allowance "from savings we've made from our success in reducing debt".
  • (19) He also quipped that one of his female MPs had "sex appeal" and wasn't "just a pretty face".
  • (20) But the validity of the individual measures and the relationship between achievement of QUIP standards and resident quality was not firmly established.

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.