A "sardonic" action is one that is "disdainfully or skeptically humorous" or "derisively mocking". Miguel alternates between cynical advice and derisively ridiculing romantic notions of journalism. Bo's critics derisively referred to him as "little Mao". The workers were referred to as Antilleans or derisively as chombos. Halfway through it the audience began derisively laughing at all the wrong places. Outsiders derisively called them "Know Nothings", and the name stuck. Ray fired Foreman as his attorney and derisively called him "Percy Fourflusher" thereafter. These reforms became known derisively as Ruthanasia. Writers of sonnets are sometimes called "sonneteers," although the term can be used derisively. By speaking derisively to a herd of centaurs, she provokes them and they abduct her. He turned his attention to the ECW audience, derisively calling them "smart marks". Rockers were also derisively known as "Coffee Bar Cowboys". Mother B had no liking for Kathleen, whom she derisively called "Big Girl". Numerous fans had derisively called the previous version a "parakeet". The adjectives "confessional" and "sensitive" were often used (sometimes derisively) to describe singer-songwriter style.