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sardonically

/sahr-don-ik-lee/US // sɑrˈdɒn ɪk li //

大言不惭地,恕我直言,大言不惭,大言不惭地说

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a way that is characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mockingly:She laughed and sardonically sang him a love song as she prepared to walk out of his life.

Examples

  • 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.