Sardonic

Definition of Sardonic

Sar`don´ic
a.1.Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; - applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.
Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still,
And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
- Sir H. Wotton.
The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian.
- Burke.
Sardonic grin
an old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.
1.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.

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Rabelaisian, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cynical, derisive, derisory, disdainful, dry, ironic, ironical, jeering, mocking, sarcastic, satiric, saturnine, sneering, wry
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