sardonicallyadv.
/sɑːˈdɒnɪkəli/ In a sardonic manner.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adverb]
dryly1430
ironiously1532
ironically1535
satirically1590
Lucianically1592
sarcastically1647
sarcasmically1658
sarcasmatically1716
sardonically1842
caustically1850
to put, or speak with, one's tongue in one's cheek1928
sarkily1967
1842–51 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 59 ‘What should one give to light on such a dream?’ I ask'd him half-sardonically.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xi. 341 An enlightened public grinned sardonically, and was not taken in.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. i. 33 The dreary criticism which makes a solitude in the human spirit and then sardonically calls it peace.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 10/1 Maximilian Harden is making himself sardonically merry over the most appropriate inscription for the sarcophagus of Bismarck.
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