Sentence examples for indirect sarcasm from inspiring English sources

If your rival tries persisting with indirect sarcasm — "Oh, real great job" — you can force the issue by calmly asking what that means.

System of a Down can be maddeningly indirect: you think you have a pretty good bead on a song, and then some splinter of humor or sarcasm or poetry, or a new beat suddenly confuses things.

Like backhanded compliments, sarcasm is a common tool of a passive aggressive child who expresses his hostility aloud, but in socially acceptable, indirect ways.

Or sarcasm.

Yes, that was sarcasm.

But it drips with sarcasm, and sarcasm is opinion.

That's not sarcasm.

And sarcasm with a wink isn't sarcasm.

He continued the sarcasm.

Sarcasm is especially dangerous.

* Avoid sarcasm and ridicule.