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

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

Her voice was full of sardonic faux pity.

From Literature

Along the way, Wilson takes Zoom meetings, unsuccessfully pitching this meta-doc to financiers, and, out of sardonic desperation, studying how to write a successful Hallmark movie.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC