sardonically

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• The town, sardonically referred to by the locals as “Poisonville,” .

• The room of conservatives did, along with one of the Times reporters, who loudly and sardonically lifted his glass “To Andrew.”

• “Welcome to Egypt,” said a youth to me, sardonically, and pointed to the group of handcuffed people around me.

• Or, as one Russian blogger sardonically put it, "It seems we've been playing better on our knees."

• The result—it is almost sardonically proverbial—was to end up destroying much of the general population in order to save it.

• Jensen grinned sardonically, for he had been expecting Wade's visit and was prepared for it.

• What chance, it sardonically suggested, had any mere average man against a rival like Eugene Gresham?

• There was a pause, groping and desperate on Betton's part, sardonically calm on his visitor's.

• My dear old Thomas, you have always sardonically greeted me as the man of calm and clockwork feelings.

• One of the newcomers smiled sardonically, and the agent recognized two of his companions.