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People can be wounded and have their feelings hurt by someone speaking sarcastically to them. Sarcasm is saying something cutting or intended to hurt, often using irony to deliver the wound. Irony is word use to say something other than what the words usually stand for, most often meaning the opposite of what the literal meaning of the words is. The tone of the voice and inflection is also often used to underscore the ironic/sarcastic part of the statement.

Example:

A man comes to breakfast after a night of drinking, he looks hung over and is unshaven, wearing the wrinkled clothes he slept in, with hair disheveled, and his eyes are red and squinted from the sunlight.

His wife takes one look at him and says, "Well, now, don't you look just bright and shiny this morning?!"

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