Definition of sardonic in English:

sardonic

adjective sɑːˈdɒnɪksɑrˈdɑnɪk

Grimly mocking or cynical.
讥讽的，冷嘲的
Starkey attempted a sardonic smile
斯塔基勉强作了一个冷笑的表情。
Example sentencesExamples
- Fan though I am of his great performances of yore, his perpetual air of sardonic superiority is now getting very grating.
- It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous troubled kid character.
- Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production.
- He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
- You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile.
- He does have a sardonic streak of humour, which erupts ever so quietly in sporadic bursts.
- The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean.
- Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes.
- Their sardonic remarks to each of the arguments put forth by the other teams sent waves of laughter among the crowd.
- Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour.
- Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease.
- His latest book, After Britain, is a comparably sardonic performance.
- I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth.
- The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban.
- He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade.
- He considers this sardonic memoir of childhood in a small corner of the British Empire
- He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic.
- In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts.
- In my more sardonic moments I add that the problem with England cricket is not the absence of a level playing field but the lack of good players.
- Many sardonic Australians find ways of making a play on these words.
Synonyms
mocking, satirical
sarcastic, ironical, ironic, cynical, scornful, contemptuous, derisive, derisory, sneering, jeering, scoffing, taunting
scathing, caustic, trenchant, mordant, cutting, sharp, stinging, acerbic, tart, acid
wry, dry
British informal sarky
rare mordacious, acidulous

Derivatives

sardonically

adverb sɑːˈdɒnɪk(ə)li

It is moments like these that make the audience chuckle sardonically at these ignorant concepts, hitting home the realization of the tragic consequences that resulted from them.
Example sentencesExamples
- Singled out for attention, she frets about what she calls, sardonically, ‘positive discrimination’.
- As one critic sardonically put it, their dollar salaries rise in inverse proportion to the obscurity of their work.
- Here he imagines a New Yorker sardonically addressing his weekend hostess.
- ‘Yes, it's too eclectic, that's the problem,’ he says sardonically.

sardonicism

nounsɑːˈdɒnɪsɪz(ə)m

Their implicit ferocity, however, has been tempered by humor, sardonicism, even understatement, yet the transforming anger of his decency and moral imperative informs everything between the lines.
Example sentencesExamples
- The six-step breakbeat boogie combines with the suspicious brass of 50s cartoons and dazes Doom's creatures with its blatant sardonicism.
- With his trademark sardonicism, he reflected upon the elaborate systems of belief that provide meaning to human existence in general, and impetus for creative activity in particular.
- His swaggering intonations are such a signature part of his act, in fact, that it's hard to sit down with a book of his material and block out the meandering sardonicism of his baritone from the inner ear.
- The trio surprises a bit, with traces of a pawky Prokofieff sardonicism.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French sardonique, earlier sardonien, via Latin from Greek sardonios 'of Sardinia', alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter.

The Greek epic poet Homer, of the 8th century bc, used the word sardanios to describe bitter, scornful laughter. Later Greeks and Romans did not really understand the reason for this word and decided it must be sardonios ‘Sardinian’ and refer to a ‘Sardinian plant’ which produced facial convulsions resembling horrible laughter, usually followed by death. English adopted sardonic in the mid 17th century to refer to grimly mocking or cynical smiles, grins, and looks as well as to laughter. The island of Sardinia also gave us the name of the sardine (Late Middle English), the small fish which was once common off its shores—the Latin source of the word, sarda, is probably from the Greek name for the island Sardō.

Rhymes

anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, tonic, transonic, ultrasonic

Definition of sardonic in US English:

sardonic

adjectivesɑrˈdɑnɪksärˈdänik

Grimly mocking or cynical.
讥讽的，冷嘲的
Starkey attempted a sardonic smile
斯塔基勉强作了一个冷笑的表情。
Example sentencesExamples
- I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth.
- He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic.
- His latest book, After Britain, is a comparably sardonic performance.
- He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade.
- He does have a sardonic streak of humour, which erupts ever so quietly in sporadic bursts.
- Their sardonic remarks to each of the arguments put forth by the other teams sent waves of laughter among the crowd.
- The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban.
- In my more sardonic moments I add that the problem with England cricket is not the absence of a level playing field but the lack of good players.
- In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts.
- He considers this sardonic memoir of childhood in a small corner of the British Empire
- He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
- Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease.
- Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes.
- Fan though I am of his great performances of yore, his perpetual air of sardonic superiority is now getting very grating.
- Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour.
- You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile.
- It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous troubled kid character.
- Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production.
- The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean.
- Many sardonic Australians find ways of making a play on these words.
Synonyms
mocking, satirical

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French sardonique, earlier sardonien, via Latin from Greek sardonios ‘of Sardinia’, alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter.

单词	sardonic
释义	Definition of sardonic in English: sardonic adjective sɑːˈdɒnɪksɑrˈdɑnɪk Grimly mocking or cynical. 讥讽的，冷嘲的 Starkey attempted a sardonic smile 斯塔基勉强作了一个冷笑的表情。 Example sentencesExamples Fan though I am of his great performances of yore, his perpetual air of sardonic superiority is now getting very grating. It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous troubled kid character. Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production. He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet. You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile. He does have a sardonic streak of humour, which erupts ever so quietly in sporadic bursts. The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean. Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes. Their sardonic remarks to each of the arguments put forth by the other teams sent waves of laughter among the crowd. Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour. Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease. His latest book, After Britain, is a comparably sardonic performance. I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth. The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban. He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade. He considers this sardonic memoir of childhood in a small corner of the British Empire He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic. In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts. In my more sardonic moments I add that the problem with England cricket is not the absence of a level playing field but the lack of good players. Many sardonic Australians find ways of making a play on these words. Synonyms mocking, satirical sarcastic, ironical, ironic, cynical, scornful, contemptuous, derisive, derisory, sneering, jeering, scoffing, taunting scathing, caustic, trenchant, mordant, cutting, sharp, stinging, acerbic, tart, acid wry, dry British informal sarky rare mordacious, acidulous Derivatives sardonically adverb sɑːˈdɒnɪk(ə)li It is moments like these that make the audience chuckle sardonically at these ignorant concepts, hitting home the realization of the tragic consequences that resulted from them. Example sentencesExamples Singled out for attention, she frets about what she calls, sardonically, ‘positive discrimination’. As one critic sardonically put it, their dollar salaries rise in inverse proportion to the obscurity of their work. Here he imagines a New Yorker sardonically addressing his weekend hostess. ‘Yes, it's too eclectic, that's the problem,’ he says sardonically. sardonicism nounsɑːˈdɒnɪsɪz(ə)m Their implicit ferocity, however, has been tempered by humor, sardonicism, even understatement, yet the transforming anger of his decency and moral imperative informs everything between the lines. Example sentencesExamples The six-step breakbeat boogie combines with the suspicious brass of 50s cartoons and dazes Doom's creatures with its blatant sardonicism. With his trademark sardonicism, he reflected upon the elaborate systems of belief that provide meaning to human existence in general, and impetus for creative activity in particular. His swaggering intonations are such a signature part of his act, in fact, that it's hard to sit down with a book of his material and block out the meandering sardonicism of his baritone from the inner ear. The trio surprises a bit, with traces of a pawky Prokofieff sardonicism. Origin Mid 17th century: from French sardonique, earlier sardonien, via Latin from Greek sardonios 'of Sardinia', alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter. The Greek epic poet Homer, of the 8th century bc, used the word sardanios to describe bitter, scornful laughter. Later Greeks and Romans did not really understand the reason for this word and decided it must be sardonios ‘Sardinian’ and refer to a ‘Sardinian plant’ which produced facial convulsions resembling horrible laughter, usually followed by death. English adopted sardonic in the mid 17th century to refer to grimly mocking or cynical smiles, grins, and looks as well as to laughter. The island of Sardinia also gave us the name of the sardine (Late Middle English), the small fish which was once common off its shores—the Latin source of the word, sarda, is probably from the Greek name for the island Sardō. Rhymes anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, tonic, transonic, ultrasonic Definition of sardonic in US English: sardonic adjectivesɑrˈdɑnɪksärˈdänik Grimly mocking or cynical. 讥讽的，冷嘲的 Starkey attempted a sardonic smile 斯塔基勉强作了一个冷笑的表情。 Example sentencesExamples I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth. He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic. His latest book, After Britain, is a comparably sardonic performance. He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade. He does have a sardonic streak of humour, which erupts ever so quietly in sporadic bursts. Their sardonic remarks to each of the arguments put forth by the other teams sent waves of laughter among the crowd. The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban. In my more sardonic moments I add that the problem with England cricket is not the absence of a level playing field but the lack of good players. In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts. He considers this sardonic memoir of childhood in a small corner of the British Empire He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet. Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease. Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes. Fan though I am of his great performances of yore, his perpetual air of sardonic superiority is now getting very grating. Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour. You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile. It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous troubled kid character. Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production. The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean. Many sardonic Australians find ways of making a play on these words. Synonyms mocking, satirical Origin Mid 17th century: from French sardonique, earlier sardonien, via Latin from Greek sardonios ‘of Sardinia’, alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter.
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