sardonian
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His sardonian laugh chilled the marquis in the marrow.
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- Same as sardonic. It is then but a Sardonian laughter that my refuter takes up at our complete antichrist. Bp. Hall, Works (ed. 1839), IX. 267.
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His sardonian laugh chilled the marquis in the marrow.
— The Grey Cloak
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- from French sardonien, from Greek
Σαρδόνιος , of Sardinia, fromΣαρδών , Sardinia: see sardonic, Sardinian.