Sardonically

[sa:'dɔnikəli]

Helstone smiled sardonically; Malone laughed a horse-laugh. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Gudrun smiled sardonically with her mouth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Don't agitate your feelings by going to look for him, said Lord Steyne sardonically. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
And he looked again at Birkin almost sardonically, with his blue, manly, sharp-lighted eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
You mean my beauty, said Mary, rather sardonically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Yes, said Will, sardonically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
He laughed sardonically, hastily took my hand, and as hastily threw it from him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
He is not born to be drowned, retorted Roylands sardonically; he is born to be hanged. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Edited by Darrell