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sarcasm
noun
Reveal meaning and examples
Cutting or mocking language, often expressing the opposite of the intended meaning.
Her exaggerated praise of the obviously broken clock was unmistakable sarcasm.
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.