Sardonic

Quick meaning: Sardonic is an adjective meaning Scornfully mocking or cynical.

Meaning

Scornfully mocking or cynical.

More Meanings

1. Disdainfully or ironically humorous.

Example Sentences

He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.

The carriage stopped, the doctor alighted, walked swiftly back to where I had also halted, and told me in an excellent sardonic fashion that he feared the road was narrow, and that he hoped his carriage did not impede the passage of my bicycle.

[Q]Uivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d Sardonick ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be.

Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.

Synonyms for sardonic

Depending on context, synonyms include sneering, satirical, sarcastic, wry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sarcastic, wry, cynical, scornful, sneering, snarkcastic.

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