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Sardonian

Sardonian adjective: sardonic.

Adjective

Sardonian (comparative more Sardonian, superlative most Sardonian)

  1. (obsolete) Sardonic.
    • He gan with guilefull words her to perswade / To banish feare; and, with Sardonian smyle / Laughing on her, his false intent to shade, / Gan forth to lay his bayte […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of Sardonian

comparativemore Sardonian
superlativemost Sardonian

Origin of Sardonian

From Latin sardonius, from Ancient Greek Σαρδόνιος (Sardónios, “Sardinian”), earlier σαρδάνιος (sardánios).

Questions about Sardonian

What does Sardonian mean?
Sardonian means sardonic.
What part of speech is Sardonian?
Sardonian is an adjective.

Words near Sardonian in the dictionary

  1. sardius
  2. sardiuses
  3. Sardo
  4. sardoin
  5. sardoins
  6. Sardonian
  7. sardonic
  8. sardonical
  9. sardonically
  10. sardonicism
  11. sardonicisms

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