Characterized by sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remarks, typically intended to wound or mock.
"Oh, *that's* helpful," she said, her voice dripping with sarcastic intent. He'd just pointed out the obvious mistake she'd been trying to fix for an hour. Her tone made it clear she thought his comment was meant to be mean, not genuinely useful.
"Oh, *sure*," he said, rolling his eyes as he watched her carefully stack the iridescent beetle wings. "Just toss them anywhere. Who needs order when you have your genius, sarcastic touch?" His voice dripped with a bitter edge, making it clear he thought her method was messy and foolish.
"Oh, *sure*, that'll work perfectly," Liam said, his voice dripping with a sarcastic edge. He watched the pigeon try to peck its way through a solid brick wall, a slow, pointless effort. His comment wasn't meant to help; it was just to point out how silly the whole situation was.
Brenda rolled her eyes. "Oh, that's just *great*," she drawled, her tone dripping with *sarcastic* meaning. Her friend had just announced he'd eaten the last cookie. Her sharp, bitter remarks were clearly intended to mock his cookie-hoarding ways.
Barnaby, a squirrel with a monocle, gave a sarcastic little cough. "Oh, *that's* a brilliant plan," he squeaked, flicking his tail. He meant it as a sharp, cutting remark, of course, because he thought the badger's idea of using a banana peel as a disguise was truly ridiculous, meant to mock the badger's poor judgment.
Sarah's sarcastic tone dripped with disdain as she watched him try to fix the broken chair. "Oh, *that's* a brilliant repair," she drawled, her voice laced with amusement, clearly intending to mock his clumsy efforts and make him feel foolish.
Brenda glared at the overflowing bin of discarded, half-finished kinetic sculptures. "Oh, *brilliant* work, Mark," she said, her voice dripping with a sarcastic edge, "Truly a testament to your vision. I'm sure the gallery will appreciate this pile of mangled wires and sad foam."
"Oh, *that's* a brilliant idea," Brenda drawled, her voice dripping with a sarcastic edge. She watched Leo painstakingly try to reattach a severed power conduit with a bent paperclip, clearly knowing it was a lost cause. The exasperated sigh she let out spoke volumes.
Brenda, whose favorite hobby was sighing dramatically, delivered a truly sarcastic compliment about my new haircut, "Oh, it's... *bold*. I'm sure it will grow into something remarkable... eventually." Her tone was so dripping with playful mockery, I couldn't help but laugh.
Brenda’s feedback on my artisanal, home-brewed kombucha was… something. "Oh, *this* is interesting," she drawled, holding her nose, her tone decidedly sarcastic. "It tastes like regret and old gym socks left in a sauna." She then offered me a sip of her own, which, surprise, tasted suspiciously like sparkling water with a hint of despair.
"Oh, *brilliant* idea," Mark muttered, rolling his eyes. His tone, sharp and dismissive, was clearly sarcastic. He meant it to sting, a bitter jab at the ridiculous suggestion, mocking the speaker's lack of judgment.
"Oh, *that's* a brilliant idea," Sarah muttered, her tone dripping with sarcastic disdain as the ancient, sputtering engine of the experimental hydrofoil coughed again. She eyed the smoking exhaust with utter, unimpressed skepticism.
"Oh, of course," he said, his voice dripping with a sarcastic edge as he surveyed the precarious, lopsided contraption I'd built from scrap metal and chewing gum. "A truly *ingenious* design. I'm sure that will hold the molten bismuth perfectly." His words, sharp and biting, clearly intended to mock my amateur welding skills.
"Oh, *sure*, Brenda," he drawled, his tone dripping with a decidedly sarcastic edge, "your interpretation of my culinary masterpiece, which vaguely resembled a charcoal briquette, is just *so* insightful. I'll be sure to catalog your astute observations for my future endeavors in pyrotechnic gastronomy."
Gerald, a particularly unimpressed badger, offered a truly sarcastic assessment of Bartholomew the squirrel's acorn-hoarding technique. "Oh yes," Gerald grumbled, his voice dripping with a sharp, bitter amusement, "precisely the optimal strategy to outwit the predatory jay. Truly ingenious." Bartholomew, however, remained blissfully oblivious to the cutting remarks, convinced of his own unparalleled foresight.
"Oh, that was a *brilliant* suggestion," he drawled, his voice dripping with a decidedly sarcastic tone. His eyes, however, remained impassive, offering no warmth to the barb. It was clear his intention wasn't to praise, but rather to belittle the audaciousness of the idea with his cutting remarks.
"Oh, *splendid*," Bartholomew drawled, his tone dripping with sarcastic disdain as he surveyed the dilapidated aqueduct. His patron, a notoriously stingy magnate, had commissioned him to restore this crumbling relic, an endeavor Bartholomew deemed utterly preposterous and a prodigious waste of his intellectual capital.
Barnaby adjusted his spectacles, his voice a low rumble as he surveyed the meticulously arranged, yet somehow utterly disastrous, collection of fungal specimens. "Ah, yes," he drawled, a decidedly sarcastic inflection coloring his words, "your *brilliant* taxonomy. Truly a testament to your considerable acumen, especially the *Amanita muscaria* nestled amongst the puffballs."
Her pronouncements on my culinary endeavors, delivered with an almost theatrical sigh, were so overtly sarcastic that the very air seemed to curdle. It was as if she believed a touch of vitriol transformed my burnt offerings into gastronomic masterpieces, a truly droll perspective for a woman who subsisted on airline peanuts.
My Uncle Bartholomew, a veritable savant of artisanal cheese fermentation, once delivered a rather *sarcastic* appraisal of my fledgling kombucha brewing endeavors, suggesting my concoction bore a striking olfactory resemblance to a damp badger's armpit after a particularly vigorous romp in a peat bog.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.