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Six example sentences with sardonic, each labelled with its topic.
The detective's sardonic reply to the mayor gets the biggest laugh, and it is the only joke in the film.
Movies
Her lyrics take a sardonic view of the industry, thanking the label for a cheque that never actually arrived.
Music
A sardonic sticker on the office fridge read: ask about our unlimited holiday, then read the approval policy.
Startups
The novel's narrator keeps a sardonic distance from his own family, describing their misfortunes like weather reports.
Literature
The coach's sardonic answer, that his team had defended beautifully in the layup line, made the reporters wince.
Basketball
The senator's sardonic thanks to colleagues who had voted against her bill drew laughter from the gallery.
Politics
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