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Today's Word "sardonic"

Scornful or mocking on

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sardonic \sar-DON-ik\ (adjective) - Scornful, mocking; disdainfully humorous.

"The young man stood looking down at her with sardonic contempt, a cowed self-conscious look on his thick, pale face." -- D.H. Lawrence, 'Women in Love'

 

Sardonic comes from French sardonique, from Latin sardonius, from Greek sardonios, sardanios, "derisive."


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