sar·don·ic 
(sär-dŏnĭk)
(sär-dŏnĭk)adj.
1. Scornfully or cynically mocking: a sardonic sense of humor.
2. Given to making sardonic remarks: "He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description" (Charlotte Brontë).
[French sardonique, from Greek sardonios, alteration of sardanios; perhaps akin to sesērenai, to show the teeth, grin mockingly.]
sar·doni·cal·ly adv.
sar·doni·cism (-ĭ-sĭz′əm) n.
- Indo-European root: perd-
- Indo-European root: perkwu-
- Indo-European root: perə-
- Indo-European root: perə-
- Indo-European root: pes-
- Indo-European root: pet-
- Indo-European root: petə-
- Indo-European root: peuk-
- Indo-European root: peuə-
- Indo-European root: pezd-
- Indo-European root: plat-
- Indo-European root: plek-
- Indo-European root: pleu-
- Indo-European root: plāk-
- Indo-European root: plāk-
- Indo-European root: pneu-
- Indo-European root: porko-
- Indo-European root: poti-
- Indo-European root: prek-
- Indo-European root: preus-
- Indo-European root: prī-
- Indo-European root: pā-
- Indo-European root: pāl-
- Indo-European root: pē(i)-
- Indo-European root: pō(i)-