Get to know Sardonic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like sarcastic.
Sardonic meaning
- Scornfully mocking or cynical.
- Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
Synonyms of Sardonic
Using Sardonic
- The main meaning on this page is: Scornfully mocking or cynical. | Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
- Useful related words include: sarcastic.
- In the example corpus, sardonic often appears in combinations such as: and sardonic, of sardonic, sardonic wit.
Context around Sardonic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sardonic
- In this selection, "sardonic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incongruously, mildly, midwestern, wit, speculation and lyrics stand out and add context to how "sardonic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a jokey sardonic style that and call midwestern sardonic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sardonic" sits close to words such as aaryan, abating and absolved, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sardonic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His offstage persona is fairly close to the stage one he favors — rumpled, excitable, mildly sardonic, casually authoritative. (18 words)
Among reporters there was sardonic speculation that the attack must have been a put-up job by Labour insiders. (19 words)
As Darlene’s smart, sensitive son, Mark is a font of sardonic one-liners, inheriting his mother’s hilarious sarcastic steak. (21 words)
Then the trailer reveals that "M3GAN 2.0" not only features a new model of its titular character (, whose deadpan facial expressions are perfect for the sardonic robot), but this time, she won't be best friends with an elementary school girl. (42 words)
The show takes the somewhat nebulous events of the book and, while still trafficking in plenty of flashy self-referential effects, presents a more conventional, linear plot with a jokey, sardonic style that replaces the book’s wistfulness. (38 words)
The white popular resentment that Bunch writes about is highly evident in the sardonic comments and facial expressions of Iowa working-class folks when the topic of the university and its privileged denizens comes up. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Among reporters there was sardonic speculation that the attack must have been a put-up job by Labour insiders.
As Darlene’s smart, sensitive son, Mark is a font of sardonic one-liners, inheriting his mother’s hilarious sarcastic steak.
At the intersection of the familiar and the uncanny lies ), the embodiment of sardonic wit, grapples with time’s cruel joke in a cycle of endless repetition.
Decked out in goofy headpieces such as a lampshade and a traffic cone, the congregants follow Bokonon in singing jaunty calypsos with incongruously sardonic lyrics.
Featuring a star-studded ensemble cast, the success of lies not only in the movie's dry but sardonic hilarity but its ingeniously plotted whodunit narrative.
Had director Young gotten his first choice in casting Kuroda’s foil, the sardonic bandit Link Stuart, Mifune would have spent becoming friends with his own doppelganger.
His offstage persona is fairly close to the stage one he favors — rumpled, excitable, mildly sardonic, casually authoritative.
Not the weightiest screen treatment of a serious mental health issue, this drolly self-deprecating portrayal nonetheless achieves a degree of poignancy and depth within a distinctive sensibility you might call Midwestern Sardonic.
Still, when I hear a local councillor or member of the council executive is down in the dumps because of my sardonic musings, I feel sad too.
Then the trailer reveals that "M3GAN 2.0" not only features a new model of its titular character (, whose deadpan facial expressions are perfect for the sardonic robot), but this time, she won't be best friends with an elementary school girl.
The white popular resentment that Bunch writes about is highly evident in the sardonic comments and facial expressions of Iowa working-class folks when the topic of the university and its privileged denizens comes up.
With sardonic wit, the series follows Adam and his fellow doctors as they attempt to care for their patients in a medical system that often fails them.
Edwards had previously known Shull as a master woodworker who manipulated his medium into elegant pieces that often had a humorous or sardonic edge.
Having spent over 20 years as Spider-Man, this sardonic version of him calls out all the tropes and tribulations that come with his job with incredible timing.
It includes a sardonic undertone as the message 'welcomes' players to this unforgiving gaming experience, much in the way the scavs were mockingly welcoming peacekeepers to the lawless land of Tarkov.
Meanwhile, others have made sardonic comparisons between Trump’s presidential campaign and the film about a sinking ship that used Dion’s iconic ballad.
On Hello Kitty's TikTok account -- whose bio is "CEO of supercute" -- sardonic memes and footage from "Hello Kitty Day" at US baseball games delight 3.5 million followers.
The show takes the somewhat nebulous events of the book and, while still trafficking in plenty of flashy self-referential effects, presents a more conventional, linear plot with a jokey, sardonic style that replaces the book’s wistfulness.
In “Days and Nights in the Forest” (1969), which follows young friends on a vacation, Mr. Chatterjee’s businessman character is sardonic and self-confident but, like the aspiring writers, yearns for a different life.
It was praised by our reviewer Nick Curtis for its ‘sardonic and elegant’ writing and for being a ‘compelling read if, like a marathon, somewhat relentless’.
Common combinations with sardonic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and sardonic 4×
- of sardonic 3×
- sardonic wit 3×
- the sardonic 3×
- sardonic and 3×
- his sardonic 3×
- was sardonic 2×
- with sardonic 2×
- is sardonic 2×
- sardonic humor 2×