sardonic

IPA: sɑrdˈɑnɪk

Examples of "sardonic" in Sentences

#54 – TP, any color will do — any color except one chosen by sardonic, that is.
Leaning up against her wall, his arms and ankles crossed, his expression sardonic.
Let’s see, I think reckless/hot-tempered/sardonic is a little too much negativity.
Ok, I didn't use the word sardonic with her, but I am now in the retelling. hahahahaha.
The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphinxlike.
I was going more for "sardonic" rather than "sarcastic" but Geoff's mini-fisking tells me I was on the money as a plausible-sounding leftist.
(Indeed, the word sardonic itself is traced to the name given to a Sardinian plant, which, when eaten, was said to produce convulsive laughter ending in death.)
Nay, I will be bold to say that, if such a thing as that they call a sardonic or grinning laughter can happen to the mind, it is to be found in these artificial and crying laughters.
Glen Reynolds is characterized as being merely "sardonic" --- Atrios is something else, Kutz doesn't say what, apparently wanting to spare our innocent eyes from the beating the author gives him.
There is a remarkable instance of this transference from the senses to the emotional feelings in the case of what is called sardonic laughter, in which a similar contortion of countenance to that caused by the pungency of a Sardinian herb is considered to denote a certain moral acerbity.