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- sardonic
collapse - disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman related words >
- satirical
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- exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" related words >
- cynicism
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- a cynical feeling of distrust related words >
- farcical
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- broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" related words >
- cynical
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- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others related words >
- Cassandra-like,
- Cassandran,
- Cassandrian,
- Rabelaisian,
- Timonistic,
- antisocial,
- captious,
- carping,
- caustic,
- caviling,
- critical,
- defeatist,
- dismal,
- downbeat,
- dry,
- faultfinding,
- gloomy,
- hairsplitting,
- hypercritical,
- ironic,
- man-hating,
- misogynous,
- nagging,
- negative,
- negativistic,
- niggling,
- nihilistic,
- overcritical,
- pessimist,
- pessimistic,
- pettifogging,
- quibbling,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- sexist,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical,
- uncheerful,
- unsociable,
- woman-hating
- sarcastic
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- expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- acerb,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- biting,
- bitter,
- captious,
- carping,
- caustic,
- cavilling,
- censorious,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corrosive,
- critical,
- cutting,
- cynical,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disdainful,
- dry,
- harsh,
- incisive,
- ironic,
- ironical,
- jeering,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- mocking,
- mordant,
- nasty,
- poisonous,
- pungent,
- ridiculing,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- satirical,
- scathing,
- scornful,
- sharp,
- spiteful,
- stinging,
- tart,
- trenchant,
- venomous,
- virulent
- doggerel
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- a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" related words >
- Doric,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- amphigory,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- burlesque,
- cacophonous,
- caricatural,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- crambo,
- crambo clink,
- crude,
- dysphemistic,
- farcical,
- graceless,
- gross,
- halting meters,
- harsh,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- inelegant,
- infelicitous,
- lame verses,
- limping meters,
- low,
- macaronic,
- macaronic verse,
- macaronics,
- nonsense verse,
- outlandish,
- parodic,
- rude,
- satiric,
- tasteless,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- undignified,
- uneuphonious,
- unfelicitous,
- ungraceful,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unseemly,
- vulgar
- Rabelaisian
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- of or relating to or characteristic of Francois Rabelais or his works; "Rabelaisian characters" related words >
- Fescennine,
- abusive,
- bawdy,
- blasphemous,
- blue,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- caustic,
- comminatory,
- contumelious,
- cursing,
- cynical,
- damnatory,
- denunciatory,
- dirty,
- dry,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- filthy,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulminatory,
- fulsome,
- imprecatory,
- impure,
- ironic,
- ithyphallic,
- lewd,
- lurid,
- maledictory,
- nasty,
- obscene,
- offensive,
- pornographic,
- profane,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- ribald,
- risque,
- salacious,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scatologic,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- smoking-room,
- smutty,
- sultry,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- vile,
- vituperative
- sarcasm
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- 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 related words >
- Atticism,
- acerbity,
- acridity,
- acridness,
- acrimony,
- agile wit,
- asperity,
- bitterness,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- contumely,
- corrosiveness,
- cynicism,
- derision,
- disdain,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- farce,
- gibe,
- harshness,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jest,
- lampoon,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- mockery,
- nimble wit,
- parody,
- pleasantry,
- poison,
- poisonousness,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- rancor,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- scorn,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sneering,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- venom,
- venomousness,
- virulence,
- visual humor,
- wit
- ironic
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- characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely" related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- biting,
- blended,
- caustic,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- conglomerate,
- cutting,
- cynical,
- dappled,
- dry,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- equivocal,
- equivocatory,
- fifty-fifty,
- half-and-half,
- heterogeneous,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- indiscriminate,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intricate,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- mordant,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- obscure,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- patchy,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- promiscuous,
- referential,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scathing,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- suggestive,
- syncretic,
- thrown together,
- trenchant,
- uncertain,
- varied,
- wry
- irony
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- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs related words >
- Atticism,
- Janus,
- agile wit,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- complexity of meaning,
- conjugation,
- cynicism,
- dichotomy,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dry wit,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esprit,
- farce,
- halving,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- lampoon,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- nimble wit,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- parody,
- paronomasia,
- pleasantry,
- polarity,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- pretty wit,
- punning,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- richness of meaning,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- self-contradiction,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- abuse,
- abusive,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumny,
- causticity,
- censorious,
- chalk talk,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- contumely,
- cynicism,
- damnatory,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- diatribe,
- disparaging,
- eulogy,
- execrating,
- execration,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- innuendo,
- inveighing,
- irony,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- judgmental,
- objurgatory,
- obloquy,
- onslaught,
- opprobrious,
- opprobrium,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- priggish,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- revilement,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- say,
- scoffing,
- screed,
- scurrile,
- scurrility,
- scurrilous,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- truculent,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vilifying,
- vituperation,
- vituperative
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- animadversion,
- arcane meaning,
- arraignment,
- aspersion,
- assumption,
- bill of particulars,
- blame,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broad hint,
- causticity,
- charge,
- clue,
- coloration,
- complaint,
- connotation,
- count,
- cue,
- cynicism,
- delation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- hint,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- imputation,
- index,
- indication,
- indictment,
- indirect,
- inference,
- information,
- inkling,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- invective,
- ironic suggestion,
- irony,
- kick,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- look,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- nod,
- nuance,
- nudge,
- occult meaning,
- overtone,
- personal remark,
- personality,
- plaint,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- prompt,
- prosecution,
- reference,
- reflection,
- reproach,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- scent,
- sign,
- signal,
- slur,
- sly suggestion,
- spoor,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- suggestion,
- suit,
- supposition,
- suspicion,
- symbolism,
- symptom,
- taxing,
- telltale,
- tinge,
- touch,
- track,
- true bill,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- unspoken accusation,
- veiled accusation,
- whisper,
- whispering campaign,
- wink
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- active,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- animated,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- argute,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- astute,
- biting,
- bitter,
- brisk,
- caustic,
- clear-cut,
- cogent,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- discerning,
- double-edged,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- edged,
- effective,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- escharotic,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- fierce,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- full of pep,
- go-go,
- gutsy,
- harsh,
- hearty,
- imperative,
- impetuous,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- ingoing,
- intense,
- irritating,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- lively,
- living,
- longheaded,
- longsighted,
- lusty,
- mettlesome,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- nervous,
- nose-tickling,
- penetrating,
- peppy,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perspicuous,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- powerful,
- probing,
- provident,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- rigorous,
- robust,
- rough,
- sagacious,
- salty,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scalding,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- sensational,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- sour,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- strenuous,
- strident,
- striking,
- stringent,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tart,
- telling,
- understanding,
- vehement,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- withering,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- caustic
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- any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actual cautery,
- acute,
- amaroidal,
- angry,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- arc,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- belligerent,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- bow,
- brand,
- brand iron,
- branding iron,
- brisk,
- burning,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- cauter,
- cauterant,
- cauterizer,
- cautery,
- choleric,
- circle,
- clashing,
- coarse,
- colliding,
- conchoid,
- conflicting,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- crisp,
- critical,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- cutting,
- cynical,
- despiteful,
- destructive,
- diacaustic,
- discontented,
- double-edged,
- dry,
- edged,
- electrocautery,
- ellipse,
- embittered,
- escharotic,
- feeling evil,
- festoon,
- fierce,
- full of hate,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hateful,
- hook,
- hostile,
- hot iron,
- hyperbola,
- incisive,
- ironic,
- irritating,
- keen,
- lituus,
- lunar caustic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- moxa,
- nose-tickling,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- out of temper,
- parabola,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- poignant,
- potential cautery,
- pungent,
- quarrelsome,
- radium,
- rancorous,
- rankled,
- repugnant,
- resentful,
- resenting,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- salty,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- set against,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sinus,
- sore,
- sour,
- spiteful,
- splenetic,
- stabbing,
- stewing,
- stinging,
- strident,
- stringent,
- succinct,
- tart,
- terse,
- tracery,
- trenchant,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- withering
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Goliardic verse,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Rabelaisian,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- agile wit,
- alba,
- amoebean verse,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bucolic,
- burlesque,
- canso,
- caricature,
- cartoon,
- causticity,
- chaffing,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- comedy,
- concrete poetry,
- cubist poetry,
- cynicism,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dramatic poetry,
- dry wit,
- eclogue,
- elegiac poetry,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epic poetry,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- erotic poetry,
- esprit,
- exaggeration,
- farce,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hatchet job,
- heroic poetry,
- humor,
- idyll,
- imagist verse,
- imitation,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jingle,
- lampoon,
- light verse,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- malicious parody,
- melic poetry,
- metaphysical poetry,
- mock-heroic poetry,
- mockery,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- narrative poetry,
- nimble wit,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oral poetry,
- palinode,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- poison pen,
- polyphonic prose,
- pretty wit,
- prose poetry,
- prothalamium,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- ready wit,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- runic verse,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satiric wit,
- satirical poetry,
- savor of wit,
- sestina,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- spoof,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- squib,
- stichomythia,
- subtle wit,
- symbolist verse,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- travesty,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- vers de societe,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
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