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sarcastically, adv.|sɑːˈkæstɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a sarcastic manner; with sarcasm.
1647J. Trapp Matt. xiii. 55 As a Christian Schoolmaster fitly answered Libanus, sarcastically demanding: what the Carpenters son was now a doing? 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xii. 39 Or whether pursuing, or in a journey, or asleep somewhere, as Elias sarcastically argues concerning Baal. 1785Burke Sp. Nabob of Arcot's Debts 25 It is not necessary that the right honourable gentleman should sarcastically call that time to our recollection. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xviii, ‘I suppose, now’, said Miss Ingram, curling her lip sarcastically [etc.]. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 49 If, it was sarcastically said, all our notions of right and wrong..are to be suddenly altered by a few lines of manuscript found in a corner of the library at Lambeth. 1887Courier 16 June 16/4, ‘I am as hungry as a wolf. I work like a horse, but I can't sleep.’ ‘You had better see a veterinary surgeon,’ said the doctor, sarcastically. |