Meanings (ES + gloss)
sardónico
Scornfully mocking or cynical.
He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.
The carriage stopped, the doctor alighted, walked swiftly back to where I had also halted, and told me in an excellent sardonic fashion that he feared the road was narrow, and that…
sardónico
Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off,…
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