mordant

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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

The fascinated Kayleen, clearly outclassed in the first round of the ailment and injury competition that forms the mordant spine of the play, asks to see and touch Doug’s wound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Yes, there's been some mordant chuckling in the media over his bizarre comments about "the late great Hannibal Lecter" and his meandering tales about electric boats and shark attacks.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

The members seemed to take that as an official offer, as opposed to a mordant joke.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

He passed it on to Alvarez, who put his signature to it and returned it to Sagane in 1949 as a mordant keepsake.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik