mordant

Example Sentences

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It’s all darkly hilarious, generating what Penny calls “the kind of laughter that can be triggered by the mordant and brutal.”

From Washington Post

Since then, he has delivered similarly mordant visions of corporate piracy, class inequality and civil war.

From New York Times

Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.

From New York Times

There are some promising glints here and there, flashes of mordant wit and obvious ambition.

From New York Times

Written with insight and mordant humor, it’s a bleak and frightening portrait of a country in thrall to a ruthless dictator.

From Los Angeles Times