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sardonically, adv.|sɑːˈdɒnɪkəlɪ| [-ly2.] In a sardonic manner.
1842–51Tennyson E. Morris 59 ‘What should one give to light on such a dream?’ I ask'd him half-sardonically. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. xi. IV. 247 An enlightened public grinned sardonically, and was not taken in. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. i. 33 The dreary criticism which makes a solitude in the human spirit and then sardonically calls it peace. 1898Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 10/1 Maximilian Harden is making himself sardonically merry over the most appropriate inscription for the sarcophagus of Bismarck. |