All 4 Uses of
sardonic
in
Light in August
- 'Yes,' he thinks with sardonic ruefulness, turning the mules into the open gate, 'I know exactly what she is going to say.†
Chpt 1 *sardonic = humorous in a mocking, cynical, or ironic way
- His face is musing, downlooking; again it cracks faintly, with a kind of sardonic weariness.†
Chpt 4
- Then he spoke again, moving; his voice now had an overtone, unmirthful yet quizzical, at once humorless and sardonic: "If I'm not, damned if I haven't wasted a lot of time."†
Chpt 11
- Byron's face cracks with that grimace faint, fleeting, sardonic, weary, without mirth.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
humor in a mocking or critical way from someone who acts as though they are superior
or:
humor that is cynical or ironic
or:
humor that is cynical or ironic