All 9 Uses of
sardonic
in
Arrowsmith
- He recalled Gottlieb's sardonic face; he felt and feared his quality of dynamic hatred.†
Chpt 2 *
- But one cannot convey the quality of it: the thin drawl, the sardonic amiability, the hiss of the S's, the D's turned into blunt and challenging T's.†
Chpt 4
- He was the more assured because (though he sardonically refused it) he was at this time offered the medical deanship of the University of West Chippewa.†
Chpt 12
- While his father was alternately proud and amiably sardonic about his own Jewish blood, the boy conveyed to his classmates in college that he was from pure and probably noble German stock.†
Chpt 13
- There was in Tredgold's affable eye a sardonic flicker.†
Chpt 22
- In a corner of Gottlieb's office, a den opening from his laboratory, was Terry Wickett, rolling a cigarette and looking sardonic.†
Chpt 27
- The European War was the one thing, besides his discharge from Winnemac, which had ever broken his sardonic serenity.†
Chpt 27
- Back of their welter of coops, unseen by the tutelary Tubbs, the lean giant figure of Gottlieb stood sardonic on a stormy horizon.†
Chpt 29
- He left most of the work to his assistants, occasionally giving them sardonic directions to "put on another hundred tubes of the A medium—hell, make it another thousand!" and when he found that they were doing as they pleased, he was not righteous nor rebuking.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(sardonic) humor in a mocking or critical way from someone who acts as though they are superior
or:
humor that is cynical or ironic