sarcast

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noun

One who speaks sarcastically.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounsarcast (plural sarcasts)

plural sarcasts

  1. One who speaks sarcastically.

    In other words, sarcasm is absolute because the sarcast perceives “two versions of reality”.

    2006, María Isabel Kalbermatten, Verbal Irony as a Prototype Category in Spanish: A Discoursive Analysis
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    The "other speaker" may be the sarcast's present interlocutor, an absent third person, or a conventional attitude.

    1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, →ISBN, page 25

    The sarcast's perspective is that of the know-it-all wiseguy, who rolls his eyes while he mouths the lines of his 'role,' demonstrating that he appreciates their absurdity.

    2012, Abraham Iqbal Khan, Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete, →ISBN, page 30

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