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• With a sardonic smile, I stared directly into the face of the librarianess.2016, Geoffrey Peyton, Incident at the Lake: A Northern Journey (part two), BookRix, →ISBN. From the entry librarianess
• There are welcome flashes of humor throughout, particularly the dark, sardonic strain that Russians call chernukha.2015 October 23, Alex Halberstadt, “‘The Tsar of Love and Techno,’ by Anthony Marra”, in New York Times. From the entry chernukha
• That every neighborhood should have a great lady, if from the author, drips with a sardonic tone.2010, Arthur M. Axelrad, “Text and Commentary”, in Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Village by the Sea, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, chapter 3, page 144. From the entry Sanditonian
• Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times. From the entry raspingly
• The requiescent Yates seemed to share a sardonic smile with the rug.1989, Walter Wangerin Jr., “The Shepherd Who Came In from the Cold”, in William Griffin, editor, Carnage at Christhaven, Harper & Row…. From the entry requiescent
• He stepped to me while taking purchase on the handrail and looked through me with an asking look; finally he added with a sardonic smile.2015, Agnes Toth, The Guardian of Power, page 124. From the entry asking
• His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face.1920, John Galsworthy, “‘Here We are Again!’”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 225. From the entry sallow
• The 42nd revue at The Second City's "junior" stage waxes sardonic about Trump, improvises a song, cleverly incorporates an audience member and trumpets (perhaps unnecessarily) its multiethnic, multiamorous cast.2018 May 9, “Critics' Picks”, in Windy City Times. From the entry multiamorous
• Written by and for a myopic, microscopical insomniac, it's a babeldom that puts all noveldom in the shade, that puts culture, with a sardonic laugh, in a cul-de-sac.2004, Kenneth White, The wanderer and his charts, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry babeldom
• Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of Fronto.1979, Carl Deroux, editor, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History [Collection Latomus; 164], volume 1, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC…. From the entry adoxographical
• His muscles were set as hard as a board in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry rigor mortis

Meaning of sardonic

1. adjective Scornfully mocking or cynical.
2. adjective Disdainfully or ironically humorous.

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How do you use sardonic in a sentence?

Sardonic is used as an adjective. For example: “He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.”

What is a short sentence with sardonic?

“He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.”

What does sardonic mean?

Sardonic means scornfully mocking or cynical.