Sardonically

Word SARDONICALLY
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They developed what they themselves called sardonically “the German look”, ever craning upwards into the sky, watchful for fighter-bombers. ❋ Max Hastings (1984)

Once Galen would have used that phrase sardonically, but he had been a member of the team too long not to have learned that-comic-book terminology notwithstanding'the enhanced senses of some of the SCU members were both accurate and often surprisingly prescient. ❋ Hooper, Kay (2004)

Before he had ridden very far up the bluff, he stopped, looked down at the long-suffering cattle, and smiled again sardonically. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Otherwise "-- sardonically --" you might have felt constrained to abide by your rash promise to marry me. " ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)

It incorporates the irony of the original: i.e., using a positive concept (“morale,” “encouragement”) sardonically to refer to what is in reality an in terrorem sanction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Congratulations,” offered Samuelson sardonically. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

In the Act II "Tahiti" flashback, the jazzy trio that comments sardonically about the "little white house in Scarsdale" sounds as dark as the funeral, and Dinah's soaring aria, about her dream of a garden and "a quiet place," is full of anguish. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)

The terrorist leader said sardonically, Contrary to what Bush says and claims that we hate your freedom. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

“This war has been so often over, and it has been told to the world so often,” one journalist observed sardonically, “that it requires nerve to say it is not . . . and we must submit calmly to disappointments, and hope for the best.” ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

The scathing but on-the-mark Joe Queenan would have none of it; in a piece sardonically titled, "Icons Aren't What They Used to Be" (WSJ, July 20, 2009), he wrote: ❋ Unknown (2009)

"If you will have your will," the wheat-farmer conceded sardonically, although his big hand clenched involuntarily as if throttling a throat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“My mother did not mind my going to the ends of the earth,” Jane observed sardonically, adding that what she could not bear was any show of independence on her own turf. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

“Bride of Chucky” is a winking tribute to tons of other horror films, and a pretty sardonically funny one at that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"A P.O.W.'s Story" is Guarino's harrowing account of his 2,801 days in Hoa Loprison—sardonically called the Hanoi Hilton by U.S. soldiers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The innocent college co-ed who wonders about an eerie noise during the night wakes up to find her roommate murdered and a message scrawled in blood by the serial killer, sardonically congratulating her on not turning on the light. ❋ Vineet Chander (2011)

Jace rubbed a temple and queried sardonically, “How?” ❋ Xcpublishing (2009)

I yelled sardonically; and the three of them cowered and shrank away as their eyes sought aloft for what new spar was thundering down upon them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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