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• n  witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  he used sarcasm to upset his opponent

• The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet.
• The pill-popping matriarch has echoes of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night; the withering sarcasm recalls Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
• Nearly perfect was a sarcasm uttered last week by ex-Viceroy of India Baron Irwin.

• irony
• satire
• caustic remark

News & Articles

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• Curdled*
  I came across that unfinished scrap about sarcasm and bitterness, and I've decided it's too good to throw away like some old Tijuana Brass 8-track the dog (now dead) chewed up. by Bill Cope About every dozen years or so, I go through my trusty writing machine (a Macintosh Classic I got used 15 years ago; screen comes in two colors--black and white!--and she still rides like a dream) and clear ...
  June 12, 2013 - Boise Weekly
• Mass. Senate ad evokes killing old people, toilet seats
  (CNN) – It's not every day a candidate manages to include toilet seats and Congress into the same ad. But that's what Massachusetts Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is doing in a sarcasm-filled, 30-second ad meant to mock attacks from his Democratic rival Rep. Ed Markey. "Gabriel Gomez is a very bad man," an announcer says […]
  June 12, 2013 - CNN Political Ticker
• 'The Kings of Summer' review: Parts of it are a royal pain, but these 'Kings' remain majestic
  Affectionate sarcasm is the key to the appeal of "The Kings of Summer."
  June 6, 2013 - Pioneer Press