mordantly
- 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
Bronstein wanted to use Byrne’s innate ability to find comic moments in unlikely places in order to capture the mordantly humorous beats in the script.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 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
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
