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
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
He is also a husband, a father, a dreamer, an adventurer and a dryly sardonic observer of history, with a mordantly funny perspective on Mexico’s past, present and future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
