So a sarcastic text, if read without the help of social cues like tone of voice or body language, can end up creating miscommunication.

Pumpkin first shows up in descriptions of the American dialect in 1900, gaining popularity through the mid-century when, along with Sweetheart, Peaches, and other pet names, it picked up a sarcastic or condescending usage as well.

it picked up a sarcastic or condescending usage as well.

*Sarcastic laughter*.

And, um - and sarcastic.

WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH! *SARCASTIC*

Being deadpan sarcastic all the time.

Hey, by the way, if you didn't pick it up through all of this, these things that are wrong, they're totally sarcastic; Din Tai Fung is really delicious.

they're totally sarcastic, Din Tai Fung is really delicious.

of Target -- and I am being sarcastic -- they're going to say, "Java Target card?" It kind

players, plus Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, and Brooks himself handle the quick and sarcastic

rather sarcastic voice of Mr. Rochester,

1. (idiomatic, colloquial, sarcastic) ; Little or no likelihood of occurrence or success.