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Definition
humor in a mocking or critical way from someone who acts as though they are superior
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humor that is cynical or ironic
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humor that is cynical or ironic
- From her teacher-housemate she had a sardonic description of a Middlewestern railroad-division town, of the same size as Gopher Prairie but devoid of lawns and trees, a town where the tracks sprawled along the cinder-scabbed Main Street, and the railroad shops, dripping soot from eaves and doorway, rolled out smoke in greasy coils.Chapter 37 (76% in)
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