sardonically

How To Use sardonically In A Sentence

• He tries to convey the humour to Phil, but Phil looks at him sardonically and talks of other things.
• He describes a similar shift a bit more sardonically, saying that his relationship has settled into a state of "depressing comfortableness. Douglas LaBier: Recharge a Declining Relationship Through "Indifference"
• They were written very coolly, very detachedly, very sardonically – saying, well if this is what you, mankind want to do with the world, then this is how it will be. Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
• Some say sardonically that combat pay is good and that one can do quite well out of this war.
• Right at that moment, a young boy, hardly 20 or even younger, looked up at me and said sardonically, ‘To propitiate the gods, babu, we do not have to look up these days.’
• Residents who every day face stinking brooks have sardonically named the township "Victoria Falls" after the waterfall, the country's main tourist attraction, first discovered by explorer ANC Daily News Briefing
• The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
• Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as "Girlington.
• `Solve the mystery with your legalistic mind," suggested Foden sardonically, partnering Mrs Van Leiden. THE QUEST FOR K
• He adjusted the tie in the mirror and now it seemed to him that his reflection was smiling at him, sardonically. AMERICAN GODS