Usage examples (8)

• I have all these sardonical thoughts racing through my head.
• “I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George,” he would say, in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of man,...
• I got tired o 'going out, Cynthy remarked, with again a smile very peculiar, and, Fleda thought, a little sardonical.
• When once deceived, however, or undeceived about the character of a person, he became utterly incredulous, and he saluted this fine speech of my lord’s with a...