"sardonically" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 93:",
          "text": "Her floppy hat came down to the tip of her nose, revealing only a long chin and a wide tight mouth, twitched up at the corners by a nervous contraction of her cheek muscles, which gave her an unexpected air of smiling sardonically in the recesses of her hat.",
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          "word": "mockingly"
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          "word": "scornfully"
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          "word": "sarcastically"
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          "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
          "word": "sardònicament"
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          "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
          "word": "sardonicamente"
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          "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
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          "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
          "word": "sardonicamente"
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          "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
          "word": "sardónicamente"
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      "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
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      "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
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      "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
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      "sense": "in a sardonic manner",
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