'Is that some kind of sardonic joke?'

Apart from bequeathing an award for investigative journalism in South Africa, he also played a last, sardonic joke on his friends as his funeral.

In the group's annals and on its letterhead, he has become a nonperson, his name cropping up only as the butt of sardonic jokes.

Indeed, a cab ride that should have taken 10 minutes took nearly an hour, during which time it seemed increasingly plausible that the artist's invitation was instead a sardonic joke.

The girlishness of her first name, short for Melissa, seems a sardonic joke.

The depths of that sardonic joke!

To pretend otherwise is a sardonic joke.

Now, this sort of sardonic joke may entertain anti-Bushniks but could make less committed voters uncomfortable.

A sardonic joke by Dietr Krieg, the German neurocybersurgeon.

To him Anne made sardonic jokes.