sardonic
41sardonic — Scornful and mocking …
42sardonic — a. bitterly or evilly humorous; grimly mocking. ♦ sardonicism, n …
43sardonic — [17] The Greek word for ‘scornful, mocking’ was sardánios, but this came to be changed to sardónios, which literally meant ‘Sardinian’, through association with the Latin term herba Sardonia ‘Sardinian plant’, the name of a sort of plant which… …
44sardonic — adj. 1 grimly jocular. 2 (of laughter etc.) bitterly mocking or cynical. Derivatives: sardonically adv. sardonicism n. Etymology: F sardonique, earlier sardonien f. L sardonius f. Gk sardonios of Sardinia, alt. of sardanios Homeric epithet of… …
45sardonic grin — SYN: risus caninus …
46sardonic laugh — sar·don·ic laugh sär .dän ik n RISUS SARDONICUS …
47Sardonic Cartoonist — Al Capp …
48sardonic laughter — scornful laughter, mocking laughter …
49sardonic smile — shrewd smile, sly smile, cunning grin …
50sardonically — sardonic ► ADJECTIVE ▪ grimly mocking or cynical. DERIVATIVES sardonically adverb sardonicism noun. ORIGIN French sardonique, from Greek sardonios of Sardinia , alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter …