What is "sardonically"

Usage examples of "sardonically".

He smiled sardonically, gesturing behind him to the center of the camp where the dismounted Nomads were milling angrily, confused, ashamed.

At the present rate of speed, Quintus Bland reflected sardonically, theirs would soon assume the aspect of an April-October union.

I took the telex message out of the envelope and, as reported, there was reams of it: Hughes-Beckett busy proving, I thought sardonically, that my poor opinion of his staff work was unjustified.

Sardonically, David had told her that he had trussed and plugged her that way because he wanted to make sure that she was relaxed and comfortable while she watched Aztor at work.

I smiled sardonically, and told her that my business kept me at the Hague, and that I could not possibly escort her.

Han would glance to his right, and there Chewie would be, regarding him sardonically with arms folded across his chest or paws linked behind his head.

Boulogne stopped the occupation on which he was engaged to give me a most friendly greeting, but when I said that he owed me a hundred thousand florins he smiled sardonically.

Eckerd had reported sardonically that there had been nothing more suspicious on the scene than a natural forest fire, caused by the lightning storm the morning of the barn raising.

Oh, for a dumbwaiter, Maia recalled sardonically, contemplating climbing all this on the way back.

Jehungir Agha, lord of Khawarizm and keeper of the costal border, scanned once more the ornate parchment scroll with its peacock seal and laughed shortly and sardonically.

Aesop stated it sardonically in the fable of the convention of the mice, when he inquired gently, 'Who is to bell the cat?

The senator's timing was excellent, Theisman thought sardonically, as the program dissolved to a commercial message, leaving the viewers with the impression of his somber, strong-jawed face and steady brown eyes.

Undoubtedly Mnementh had been as repelled by the dragon, as a man like F'lar would be by the rider-unrider, Lessa corrected herself, sardonically glancing at the drowsing S'lel.

Even the simple folk song, embellished with color, scent and "the joy of spring," she thought sardonically, was doubly effective as a mood setter when played on the Optherian organ.

She felt faint and wondered if she could carry this thing through, this mar­riage arranged by Fithians across the ocean, but then she gritted her teeth, allowed Fitzhugh Steed to kiss her, and thought sardonically: Courage, lass.