sardonic
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sardonic englanniksi
Scornfully mocking or cynical.
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(quote-book)|edition=Fourth|location=London|publisher=(...) Benjamin Tooke, (...) and Thomas Sawbridge (...)|oclc=1052510817|pages=390–391|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/reliquiaewottoni00wott/page/391/mode/1up|passage=QUivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d ''Sardonick'' ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be.
(RQ:Burke Regicide Peace)
(RQ:Doyle Return of Sherlock Holmes)
Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
(quote-journal), but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of Cornelius Fronto|Marcus Cornelius Fronto.
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