sardonically

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.