A "sardonic" action is one that is "disdainfully or skeptically humorous" or "derisively mocking". He laughs disdainfully, passionately kisses the wound. Number Six glowers at them, notices Kathy (Number Twenty-two), and walks out disdainfully. Though he does not disdainfully dismiss it as Jeffrey had, he expresses serious reservations. Attila disdainfully calls him a traitor to his country. Early Anabaptists were viewed disdainfully by their adversaries as a radical peasant movement. She speaks disdainfully of marriage and makes it clear she is happily divorced. Before this, eroticism intermingled with Christian revelations were treated disdainfully. He walks into another party where the hostess disdainfully calls him a "party crasher". In Peru and Bolivia, the word "roto" ("tattered") is used to refer disdainfully to Chileans. Courtenay, says Griffiths, "disdainfully made his excuses". And it was done indolently, without haste, sometimes seemingly disdainfully. They disdainfully called it "Heldenbutter" "hero's butter" or "Hindenburgfett". Practitioners of Kibology are called "Kibologists" or (sometimes more disdainfully) "Kibozos". It is also referred to, disdainfully, in George Eliot's Middlemarch.