sardonic

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

However, a touch of sardonic levity has always been part of Panahi’s storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times

Hoy goes over to check in with Sir Andy Murray about his readiness and is met with a typical sardonic quip from his fellow Scot.

From BBC

There was Baron Hoover and his wife, the baroness, and the Earl of Maytag, who looked sardonic as ever.

From Literature

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