Sentence examples for obvious sarcasm from inspiring English sources

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"I just haven't had them ready to play, I guess," Valentine said, with obvious sarcasm.

With obvious sarcasm, he wrote, "Do you have that Skype thing kids talk about these days?" I've read that 90 percent of human communication is nonverbal.

"Had he told me when we met that he would become a fan," she said dryly and without any obvious sarcasm, "we would not be married".

Obvious sarcasm and irony should be tagged as "Other".

"My idea of the ideal cruise," he says, with obvious sarcasm, "is being cloistered out on the ocean with hundreds of vendors, a long swim away from shore".

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It takes a lot of moxie to open a piece of serious criticism with such a lofty declaration of the obvious, offered in praise, without sarcasm or irony.

And in case it wasn't extremely obvious, this entire post was sarcasm.

We use humor and sarcasm to communicate the obvious- we are almost always reachable.

We'd all be much safer, but the sarcasm inherent in such comments indicates an obvious disapproval of the intrusiveness.

Sarcasm is often used when the answer to a question seems obvious to at least one participant in the conversation.

Basically, sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you think in a humorous way that makes it obvious that you're joking.

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