When i think of the target of sarcasm, I can’t think of a time when they were happier or felt better about themselves after the sarcasm.

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    The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer” and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.