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SARDONIC GRIN

Definition: SARDONIC GRIN

SARDONIC GRIN

1. An old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: SARDONIC GRIN

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism; sardonic grin, sardonic laugh; sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo; bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment.
Rejoicing	Smile, simper, smirk, grin; broad grin, sardonic grin.
Ridicule	Noun: ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision; scoffing; (disrespect); mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing; Verb: asteism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: SARDONIC GRIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-s"
	-3 letters: corrading, gridirons, indorsing, inorganic, ordaining, signorina.
	-4 letters: adorning, andirons, cardings, carrions, conidian, cordings, corridas, crannogs, crinoids, darnings, discoing, draining, garrison, grandsir, grandson, gridiron, incasing, indicans, ingrains, ironings, nigrosin, nonacids, nonrigid, organics, radioing, roarings, rosining, sardonic, scarring, scorning.
	-5 letters: adoring, airings, andiron, anionic, arising, candors, carding, carrion, cirsoid, coining, condign, conidia, consign, cording, corning.
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Alternative Orthography: SARDONIC GRIN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 41 52 44 4F 4E 49 43 47 52 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0052 0044 004F 004E 0049 0043 0047 0052 0049 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5335523849484337241524348

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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