half-sarcastic

They look at her and go, "Hey, she's just like me - she's heavily in debt and a black guy's trying to steal her job." (sadly, that's only half-sarcastic)

Oregon Exit Polls: Obama Handily Beat Hillary Among Whites, No-College, Less-Than-$50,000 Voters 2009

Lately he has been downright snippy at moments, as in his half-sarcastic quip that Hillary was "likable enough."

John Neffinger: Hillary's Moment 2008

That's only half-sarcastic, by the way, but I'm still astounded at some of the great stuff that gets ignored.

Thoughts on the Eisner Nominations | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

The question's only half-sarcastic; you can only half discuss it without going there or relying on platitudes.

Tuesday Hangovers 2006

The question's only half-sarcastic; you can only half discuss it without going there or relying on platitudes.

November 2006 2006

The question's only half-sarcastic; you can only half discuss it without going there or relying on platitudes.

Tuesday Hangovers 2006

Thee in that delicate half-sarcastic tracery of the nostril I detected the intellectual defiance which had politically isolated Silas Ruthyn and opposed him to the landed oligarchy of his county, whose retaliation had been a hideous slander.

Uncle Silas 2003

She gave a little unbidden laugh, half-sarcastic, part disbelief.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

'I feel humiliated,' I say, half-sarcastic, but he's too dumb to catch on.

The Rules of Attraction Ellis, Bret Easton 1963

He spoke in his old half-sarcastic, half-cynical way, but a feeble, gasping voice, that made an effect of contrast, as of the tragic face espied behind the grinning mask.

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter