| 单词 | sarcastic |
| 释义 | sar·cas·tic also sar·cas·ti·cal 1. < made a profound and sarcastic bow, turned on his heel and left the room — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < making the sarcastic comment that his popularity with his fellow workers depends on his not producing more than they > 2. < was as a stump speaker sarcastic … as often as he was argumentative — Carl Sandburg > Synonyms: < laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits — W.M.Thackeray > satiric applies to attempts to censure, castigate, or expose to open ridicule weaknesses, faults, or excesses < a satiric picture, too, an intermittent glimpse into the smallness of human nature — John Erskine †1951 > < the satiric theme of the rustic staring wildly about him in the town — G.G.Coulton > ironic or ironical applies to amusing, piquant, startling, or surprising difference between what is said and what is intended or between what is given out and accepted and what is really true < it is an ironic likelihood that had he written less he would be held in higher esteem — Dorothy S. Davis > < a man so excessively ugly that he went by the ironical appellation of “beauty” — Herman Melville > sardonic may apply to what manifests scorn, mockery, or derision and arises from disbelief in or doubt about values or motives < continued to grin with a sardonic humor, with a cynical mockery and defiance — Jack London > < came to the funeral, full of calm, sardonic glee, and without being asked — Arnold Bennett > |
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