Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:09:47 EDT
Sardonic Versus Sarcastic
- Sardonic
- To be sardonic is to mock, to doubt, or to scorn with black humor or melodrama. An expression of bitterness or cynicism is not sardonic unless the expression has a degree of unexpected cleverness. “A sudden slip of the San Andreas Fault could cause California to sink into the ocean, and then something bad might happen.”
- Sarcastic
- To be sarcastic is to mock, to doubt, or to scorn with irony. When you are ironic, you make statements that have the opposite meaning to your intended meaning. “Of course I love your burned, dry meatloaf.”