caustic remark

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noun

witty language used to convey insults or scorn
- he used sarcasm to upset his opponent
- irony is wasted on the stupid
- "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
• Syn:
sarcasm, irony, satire
• Derivationally related forms:
satiric (for: satire), satirical (for: satire), satirist (for: satire), satirize (for: satire), satirise (for: satire), ironical (for: irony), ironic (for: irony), ironist (for: irony), sarcastic (for: sarcasm)
• Hypernyms:
wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
• Attrubites:
sarcastic, unsarcastic