0 humorous in an unkind way that shows you do not respect someone or something: --
1 showing an amused attitude toward someone or something that suggests a criticism but does not express it: --
Mildly sardonic, the chairman’s soft-spoken cross-examination embarrassed hostile witnesses without humiliating them.
a sardonic smile
I see here the sardonic smiles on the faces of the millionaires, sarcastic smiles, but those who laugh last laugh best, and we will laugh the last.
There is nothing sardonic in that reference.
The seamen look over the side with that remote, sardonic look which they reserve for all miserable mortals who are not sailing in their own particular ship.
None of us will ever forget that craggy face, that entrancing wit and that wonderfully sardonic sense of humour, which was always funny and diverting and never wounding or malicious.
The subject has been mentioned already today, though only in a somewhat sardonic tone.
Sometimes it is sardonic and sometimes a little morbid, but there is one thing that can be said of him.
There is a certain sardonic pleasure in remembering that that was the month of a vote of censure in another place.
It is easy to make sardonic remarks or cynical observations about our past failures.
