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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Rabelaisian, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cynical, derisive, derisory, disdainful, dry, ironic, ironical, jeering, mocking, sarcastic, satiric, saturnine, sneering, wry
Dictionary Results for sardonic:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sardonic
    adj 1: disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and
           mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter
           of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry
           pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"-
           Irwin Edman

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sardonic \Sar*don"ic\, a.
   Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at
   Colchis.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sardonic \Sar*don"ic\, a. [F. sardonique, L. sardonius, Gr. ?,
   ?, perhaps fr. ? to grin like a dog, or from a certain plant
   of Sardinia, Gr. ?, which was said to screw up the face of
   the eater.]
   Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking,
   malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh,
   smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.
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         Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still,
         And grief is forced to laugh against her will. --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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         The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody
         ruffian.                                 --Burke.
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   Sardonic grin or Sardonic laugh, an old medical term for
      a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving
      it an appearance of laughter.
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