mordant

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Mr. Hazzard, a journalist, television writer and former paramedic, has written two other books about the proud subculture—the stoic commitment, the mordant humor—of front-line medics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

What defines him instead are various quips, mordant jokes and accounts of bizarre behavior, many no doubt apocryphal, recorded by his admirers and detractors in the centuries after his death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Martinez scatters ceramic roses across the painting, a mordant honorific to past glory and current hopes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Before that, Serra could most often be found mining France’s centuries past for mordant tableau vivants of corporeal concern, most notably in his protracted bedchamber drama “The Death of Louis XIV.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

Tyrion took a mordant pleasure in inventing the details of the colorful life of Hugor Hill, also known as Yollo, a bastard out of Lannisport.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin