How to Use sardonic in a Sentence

sardonic

adjective

• The movie is a sardonic look at modern life.
• The 5-foot-1 Clary sported a beret and a sardonic smile as Cpl.
  — Lynn Elber, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• The song makes such a sardonic point about his relationship, with the guy in the house.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2024
• If sardonic lyrics are your thing, McMurtry has to be on your radar.
  — idahostatesman, 20 July 2017
• If this were a Hitchcock film, the shooting might put a sardonic cap on the drama.
  — Lloyd Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
• If nothing else, this waltz demonstrates his taste for the sardonic, and wry.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Our sardonic superhero needs to get the timing just right to crash through the sunroof and beat up the bad guys.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
• That’s perfect because your games all to seem to have a bit of that sardonic, dry humor in them.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2019
• A lot of actors could have played him as a sardonic quipster.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The game has the aesthetic and charm of a sardonic graphic novel.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
• Though sardonic in essence, the close to two-minute scene portrayed in the ad has resounded with some doctors.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth; the hard, tight-skinned face.
  — Paul Duncan, Vulture, 24 May 2024
• But for me too many of the poems are either trivial or sardonic.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Benioff, who wears his hair in a Morrissey quiff, is the more sardonic one.
  — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
• She’s got that sardonic sense of humor down pat, and she’s starred in two movies about motherhood.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Munch’s sardonic demeanor turned out to be perfect for the grim tone of the series, and Belzer stayed 14 seasons.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2023
• Not because that sardonic video prologue begged them to do so.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Bush has a wide-eyed openness and Navia something more wryly sardonic, and the contrast works well.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
• And then there are the welcome flashes of sardonic humor.
  — Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• The movie also takes a sardonic, sidelong look at the problems that arise when the main motive for health care providers is the profit motive.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Midge makes a new friend at the club, a booker named Susie—butch, sardonic, ambitious—played by Alex Borstein, who gets many of the show’s best lines and deserves them.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Then there are the art students, mostly YouTubing their sardonic take on art.
  — Momus, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2007
• There is tragedy lurking beneath the sardonic humor of these works.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Meg’s lips rose in a sardonic smile, the force of her stare intensifying.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 July 2024
• Even in the dramatic context, Bel-Air could use more of that sardonic spirit.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• That’s when Regina’s sardonic sister (Wanda Skyes, the show’s co-creator) steps in and lets him and his reprobate pals have it.
  — Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
• His style was to yell into the camera, in a voice reminiscent of Andy Kaufman, or of a sardonic game-show host.
  — Anna Heyward, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
• The film is sardonic about modelling, but there’s nothing satirical in its view of the business or of the couple’s self-aware place in it.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Only this time, she’s all grown up and has a sardonic daughter of her own played by reigning scream queen Jenna Ortega—she of Wednesday Addams fame.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
• Serhii, a sardonic shopkeeper, displays the latest copies alongside shrapnel that damaged his shop, which sits a few blocks from Nina’s.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024