Thesaurus / mordacity
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The facility of doggrel merely of itself could not have yielded the exuberance of his humour and the mordacity of his satire.
AMENITIES OF LITERATUREISAAC DISRAELI
WORDS RELATED TO MORDACITY
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- flouting
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordacity
- mordancy
- put-down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- wisecrack
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