mordacity
[ mawr-dey-shuh s ]
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR MORDACITY
The facility of doggrel merely of itself could not have yielded the exuberance of his humour and the mordacity of his satire.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR MORDACITY
trenchancy
nounsarcasm- 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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