mordant
adjective
sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
mordantly
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a word derived from
mordant.
Example Sentences
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The steady-paced, often mordantly funny “Pick a Color” explores the immigrant experience, the long tail of trauma, the indignities suffered by low-wage workers and their companion emotions: loneliness, loss and grief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Colin Barrett’s second collection, ‘Homesickness,’ expands the reach of this mordantly funny Irishman beyond the small-town millennials of his debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Enrigue’s mordantly funny take on a culture clash that changed the world is less historical fiction and more alternative history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Buñuel, a master of surreal imagery who aimed his mordantly irreverent plots at bourgeois values, mostly worked in exile.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
