Examples of sarcastic

• Even seemingly highminded action must be probed by this sarcastic mistrust, until true motives are revealed.

• Low scores were characterized by apathetic, indifferent, irritable, sarcastic, or denigrating behavior toward the child.

• Sarcastic expressions are also considered in this chapter, and rightly so because they can be viewed as ambiguous.

• Clearly she had not understood the sarcastic nature of the cooks' compliments.

• That is why colonial society is such an appropriate field for sarcastic demystification.

• An all too common feature of his discussion is a use of nearly malicious language for the description of particularly terrible facts, which is presumably intended to be sarcastic detachment.

• Patchen's slightly humorous, sarcastic tone helps to avoid any sense of melodrama.

• As we will see in section 3, the past tense is used here for reasons of discourse tentativeness, although it may also be meant to be sarcastic.