sardonic
adjective
sar·don·ic
sär-ˈdä-nik 
: disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking
a sardonic comment
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Examples of sardonic in a Sentence
"The Great War," used interchangeably with "the First World War" (so named in 1918 by a sardonic English journalist, who knew it would not be the last such conflict) …
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Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic, May 1999
They have that brand of sardonic humor special to people up against it: black and wry and shocking …
—Doris Lessing, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1987
In a story by Flaubert, this spreading of cloths to save the carpet would be observed with a sardonic eye; in Lawrence it is bleakly practical.
—Hugh Kenner, A Sinking Island, 1987
The movie is a sardonic look at modern life.
a sardonic little jab that made her visitor quiet and subdued for the rest of the night
Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic, May 1999
They have that brand of sardonic humor special to people up against it: black and wry and shocking …
—Doris Lessing, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1987
In a story by Flaubert, this spreading of cloths to save the carpet would be observed with a sardonic eye; in Lawrence it is bleakly practical.
—Hugh Kenner, A Sinking Island, 1987
The movie is a sardonic look at modern life.
a sardonic little jab that made her visitor quiet and subdued for the rest of the night
Recent Examples on the Web
Millions more cram the sidewalks to clap, bang drums, and wave sardonic homemade signs.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2024
Suzanne Pleshette played Bob’s sardonic and knowing wife Emily, with I Dream of Jeannie co-star Bill Daily constantly intruding as their goofball neighbor, Howard Borden.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 July 2024
The Wednesday Creeper combines hard and soft design details, almost to reflect its namesake’s own hard and sardonic exterior versus her deeply felt emotions.
—Esther Newman, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Six years later, this conceptually similar franchise — a hapless hero possessed by a wise-cracking symbiotic alien — clearly feels emboldened by the public’s embrace of Wade Wilson and his sardonic alter ego.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2024
Suzanne Pleshette played Bob’s sardonic and knowing wife Emily, with I Dream of Jeannie co-star Bill Daily constantly intruding as their goofball neighbor, Howard Borden.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 July 2024
The Wednesday Creeper combines hard and soft design details, almost to reflect its namesake’s own hard and sardonic exterior versus her deeply felt emotions.
—Esther Newman, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Six years later, this conceptually similar franchise — a hapless hero possessed by a wise-cracking symbiotic alien — clearly feels emboldened by the public’s embrace of Wade Wilson and his sardonic alter ego.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Sardonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sardonic. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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