SARCASTIC in a Sentence

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He was ridiculous, and unpleasantly sarcastic, but yet he inspired involuntary respect by his boundless devotion to an idea.

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 Meanings and Examples of SARCASTIC
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sarcastic
 a.  ironic; expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  He felt the tears were coming into his eyes, and he did not like to cry before his sarcastic friend.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  They took a savage and sarcastic view of it, but were morally impressed, especially as the teachers began to notice me on those grounds.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
3  Prince Andrew looked Anna Pavlovna straight in the face with a sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
4  "Bonaparte has said so," remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
5  Well, well, God grant it, he added, not noticing his visitor's sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
6  "You are mistaken," said Boris deliberately, with a bold and slightly sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
7  Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was particularly disturbed that day, evidently by the fact that they had dared to inspect and criticize his camp in his absence.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER X
8  He was ridiculous, and unpleasantly sarcastic, but yet he inspired involuntary respect by his boundless devotion to an idea.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XI
9  Many persons withdrew from the circle, noticing the senator's sarcastic smile and the freedom of Pierre's remarks.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
10  He reappeared the next morning as she was breakfasting in her room, disheveled, quite drunk and in his worst sarcastic mood, and neither made excuses nor gave an account of his absence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  I must say I think she was pretty sarcastic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Jurgis was vexed when the cynical Jokubas translated these signs with sarcastic comments, offering to take them to the secret rooms where the spoiled meats went to be doctored.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  A sarcastic man who was tramping at the youth's side, then spoke lazily.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  He cast a frightened glance at the sarcastic man.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  The significance of the sarcastic man's words took from him all loud moods that would make him appear prominent.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  Do not let him nettle you with his sarcastic remarks.
2  I am afraid of his trenchant wit for it is so often sarcastic.
3  James was unpopular because of his sarcastic and acidulous remarks.
4  The animus of the speaker became obvious to all when he began to indulge in sarcastic and insulting remarks.
5  I don't know why you feel that being insulting and sarcastic is productive.
6  They resented his bantering remarks because they thought he was being sarcastic.
7  They dislike you because your quip and sarcastic comment for their event.
8  Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
9  Hearing a sarcastic note in his voice, she swung around to face him.
10  Instead, the crowd began sarcastically to cheer him on and showered him with facetious advice.