Usually means: Polite mockery in clever form.
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  8. asteism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  10. asteism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  12. asteism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (asteism)

▸ noun:  Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Similar:
asteismus, Atticism, charientism, apotreptic, irony, sarcasticalness, ironym, post-irony, apodioxis, atticisme, more...

Opposite:
flattery, compliment, praise, admiration
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Similar:
asteismus, Atticism, charientism, apotreptic, irony, sarcasticalness, ironym, post-irony, apodioxis, atticisme, more...

Opposite:
flattery, compliment, praise, admiration



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