The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm delivers the perfect bathroom reading material. Not that you give a crap, as the author might say. James Napoli, who bills himself on the cover as executive vice ...

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines sarcasm as “a taunting, sneering, cutting or caustic remark,” while the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary–which calls itself the “one of the world’s most ...

It’s funny how sarcasm is associated with humor. “To tear flesh like a dog,” is not a jolly image, but the word nonetheless derives from the Greek sarkazein, meaning just that. It evolved to mean “to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A father and daughter were deep in discussion over breakfast at a diner. “That’s not irony, that’s sarcasm,” the father ...

OK, I do have a T-shirt which has the title of this column as the message on the shirt. And, I might have another T-shirt which says something like, “Sarcasm – Just One of the Many Free Services I ...