In one of his letters here published, Branwell, sketching a criminal grinning with the halter round his neck, asks the question: 'Is there really such a thing as the Risus Sardonicus?
Is there really such a thing as the Risus Sardonicus--the sardonic laugh?
The body was bent like a bow but the most unbearable of all was the drawn face and the awful semblance of laughter that has been fitly called risus sardonicus.
Risus abundat in ore stultorum=--Laughter is 35 common in the mouth of fools.
Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est=--The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask.
In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est=--Even to 20 smile at the unfortunate is to do them an injury.
The corners of the mouth frequently retracted into a disagreeable smile, called risus Sardonicus.
The angles of the mouth may be retracted, producing a grinning expression known as the risus sardonicus.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant SHEE: The sort of grin which I have described is known as risus sardonicus.
The recluse laughs: "os in risus cachinnosque dissolvitur"; in a word, the old woman amuses the anchoress with fabliaux in an embryonic state.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
