What is "sarcasms"

Usage examples of "sarcasms".

Nothing was to be heard but complaints and imprecations against the Flemings, the Provost of the Merchants, the Cardinal de Bourbon, the Bailiff of the Palace, Madame Margaret of Austria, the sergeant-vergers, the cold, the heat, the bad weather, the Bishop of Paris, the Pope of Fools, the pillars, the statues, this closed door, that open window—all to the great amusement of the groups of scholars and servingmen scattered through the crowd, who mingled with all this discontent their sarcasms and mischievous sallies, which, like pins thrust into a wound, produced no small aggravation of the general ill-humour.

The scholars who had taken post at the window greeted them as they passed with sarcasms and ironical plaudits.

They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew.