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| Main Entry: | sarcastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, mocking in speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, mean, mordant, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, sneering, trenchant, acerb, chaffing, contumelious, cussed, ironical, needling, smart-alecky, snarling, taunting, twitting, weisenheiming |
| Notes: | sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while sardonic means 'bitterly scornful, cynically disdainful' |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibiting unkind behavior or words |
| Synonyms: | censorious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, offensive, opprobrious, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, calumniating, castigating, contumelious, maligning, obloquious, reproachful, reviling, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, kind, respectful |
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | backhanded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, equivocal, sarcastic, sardonic, double-edged, two-edged |
| Main Entry: | captious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very critical |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, disparaging, exacting, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy, caviling, cavillous, deprecating, exceptive, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, commendatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | corrosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consuming, wearing; bitter |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, cutting, destructive, incisive, sarcastic, trenchant, venomous, virulent, acerb, corroding, erosive, strongly acid, wasting |
| Antonyms: | supporting, contributing, fortifying |
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, ingoing, probing, wounding |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | cynical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonbelieving; doubtful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic, mocking, pessimistic, sarcastic, sardonic, scornful, skeptical, sneering, suspicious, unbelieving, wry, misanthropical, scoffing |
| Antonyms: | believing, hopeful, optimistic, trusting, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | derisive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculing |
| Synonyms: | cheeky*, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, disdainful, flip*, fresh, insulting, jeering, mocking, nervy, rude, sarcastic, sassy, scornful, smart*, gally, out-of-line, scoffing, smart-alecky, taunting |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, flattering, respectful, praising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
| Synonyms: | censorious, critical, damaging, defamatory, degrading, disdainful, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, opprobrious, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, aspersing, belittling, calumnious, contumelious, decrying, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, dishonoring, maligning, minimizing, reproachful, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
| Main Entry: | facetious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tongue-in-cheek, kidding |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip*, flippant, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry |
| Antonyms: | formal, grave, serious, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | libelous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | derogatory |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, defamatory, disparaging, false, injurious, invidious, malevolent, malicious, opprobrious, pejorative, sarcastic, scurrilous, untrue, aspersive, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, debasing, depreciative, detracting, detractory, maligning, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, praising |
| Main Entry: | misanthropic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable, cynical |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, malevolent, reclusive, reserved, sarcastic, selfish, solitary, standoffish, unfriendly, egoistic, egotistical, eremitic, hating, inhumane, misanthropical |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, philanthropic, sociable |
| Main Entry: | satirical/satiric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mocking |
| Synonyms: | abusive, biting, bitter, burlesque, caustic, censorious, cutting, cynical, farcical, incisive, mordant, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, bantering, chaffing, ironical, lampooning, paradoxical, parodying, ridiculing, spoofing, taunting |
| Main Entry: | scathing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, critical in remarks |
| Synonyms: | biting, brutal, burning, caustic, cruel, cutting, harsh, mordant, salty, sarcastic, scorching, scornful, severe, trenchant, withering, belittling, mordacious, searing, sulphurous |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | sharp-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | biting, carping, cutting, cynical, derogatory, harsh, hypercritical, mean, nasty, sarcastic, satirical, belittling, censuring, condemning, cursing, demeaning |
| Main Entry: | snide |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, nasty |
| Synonyms: | base, cynical, disparaging, hurtful, malicious, mean, sarcastic, scornful, sneering, spiteful, unkind, insinuating |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, lovable, loving, nice |
| Main Entry: | tongue-in-cheek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ironic and insincere |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, clever, comic, comical, dry, facetious, farcical, flip*, flippant, funny, humorous, in fun, in jest, ironic, ironical, irreverent, jesting, jocular, joking, jokingly, joshing, kiddingly, laughable, not serious, playful, pulling one's leg, putting one on, sarcastic, satirical, smart, whimsical, wisecracking, witty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satirical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mocking |
| Synonyms: | abusive, biting, bitter, burlesque, caustic, censorious, cutting, cynical, farcical, incisive, mordant, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, bantering, chaffing, ironical, lampooning, paradoxical, parodying, ridiculing, satiric, spoofing, taunting |
| Main Entry: | mocking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncivil |
| Synonyms: | derisive, insulting, rude, sarcastic, unkind |
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