Can a person be described as sardonic?

Question

I know you can say things like sardonic wit and stuff but is it correct to say something like she is a sardonic person?

Answer 1

not widely used...but technically yes.

Answer 2

I see you have the cheap dictionary definitions of sardonic. To be " mordantly jocular ", is the correct primary definition of sardonic. Coming from the eating of the plant that caused, " laughing death ". It was only with the publication of the novel, " Sardonicus ", that the secondary and tertiary meanings were conflated with sarcastic. It pays to spend more than two dollars for a dictionary. Cheap dictionaries are notorious for conflations.

PS It is correct to say, " she is a sardonic person ".

Answer 3

disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists.
Yes they can be sardonic. Like they could have a sardonic humor etc.

Answer 4

Sure why not. It is an adjective meaning disdainfully or skeptically humorous....derisively mocking.. You could say "Her biting sense of humor made her a sardonic woman". "She was sardonic - everything she said was derisively mocking."

Answer 5

sardonic \sar-DON-ik\, adjective:
Scornful, mocking; disdainfully humorous.
Example: The sardonic historian, whose rule it is to exhibit human nature always as an object of mockery.

Answer 6

yea I guess a person can be described as sardonic depends on how you put it

Answer 7

Yes, the definition is as follows:

–adjective characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.


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[Origin: 1630–40; alter. of earlier sardonian (influenced by F sardonique) < L sardoni(us) (< Gk sardónios of Sardinia) + -an; alluding to a Sardinian plant which when eaten was supposed to produce convulsive laughter ending in death]

Answer 8

Watch. Circle. Banana. Thing. Shoe.

Answer 9

Absolutely.