sardonic

Example Sentences

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Conspicuous lip color can, after all, signify a million things — from class status to sardonic camp.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

He said Crook's latest series is "quite incisive, it's not dreamy, he writes very funny lines, very tart and quite sardonic in their way".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

But the marketing term has since taken a viral, sardonic turn.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

What “The Trouble With Harry” needed, Herrmann wrote, was “a musical portrait of Hitchcock . . . gay, funny, macabre, tender and with an abundance of his sardonic wit.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

They approached Herbie simultaneously; Lanning angry and impatient, Bogert, coolly sardonic.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov