SARCASTICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sarcastically mean? 

• SARCASTICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb SARCASTICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a sarcastic manner

  Familiarity information: SARCASTICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARCASTICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sarcastic manner

Synonyms:

sarcastically; sardonically

Context example:

'Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically

Pertainym:

sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

 Context examples 

Instead, the crowd began sarcastically to cheer him on and showered him with facetious advice.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But soon afterwards, rising and pacing the room, he observed sarcastically—There are few among the gentlemen of the navy, I imagine, who would not be surprised to find themselves in a house of this description.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I suppose, now, said Miss Ingram, curling her lip sarcastically, we shall have an abstract of the memoirs of all the governesses extant: in order to avert such a visitation, I again move the introduction of a new topic.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)