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Example sentences for: sardonic

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It is a sardonic wit, a wit that can be as savage and biting as the dry northern winds that sear this land for a goodly part of the year.
His grotesque, sardonic "Woman" paintings were seen as a betrayal of his earlier abstract phase.
I'm jealous of the ideas that guy comes up with--always topical, hilarious, sardonic, smart.
About two-thirds of the way into Burn Rate , Michael Wolff's sardonic tell-all about his failed attempt to become an Internet multimillionaire, the author pauses to ask himself a set of questions I had been wanting him to address for 150 pages:
Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.