mordant
Example Sentences
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Via a wild final act, the nihilistic streak seen in many of Mr. Lanthimos’s previous movies emerges again, this time in an especially mordant way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
His worst critics perceived this outlook as complacency, something insufficiently mordant for any writer of the long, wicked 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Martinez scatters ceramic roses across the painting, a mordant honorific to past glory and current hopes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Instead, war broke out across Europe, and Asquith made his mordant headache joke on the way to the historical dumpster.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2024
The girl watched him warily, but Stonesnake gave a mordant chuckle.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
