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Cutting or mocking language, often expressing the opposite of the intended meaning.
noun
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sarcasm
Her exaggerated praise of the obviously broken clock was unmistakable sarcasm.
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The next draft used hyperbole when Nia wrote that the final drumbeat could have shaken every window in the city. Her line about the hour-long queue carried sarcasm: she called the unexplained wait a glorious achievement in hospitality.
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