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mordantly adverb
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The etymology of mordant certainly has some bite to it. That word, which came to modern English through Middle French, ultimately derives from the Latin verb mordēre, which means "to bite." In modern parlance, mordant usually suggests a wit that is used with deadly effectiveness. Mordēre puts the bite into other English terms, too. For instance, that root gave us the tasty morsel ("a tiny bite"). But nibble too many of those and you'll likely be hit by another mordēre derivative: remorse ("guilt for past wrongs"), which comes from Latin remordēre, meaning "to bite again."
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Adjective a writer famous for her mordant humor a mordant review of the movie that compared it to having one's teeth pulled for two hours
Recent Examples on the Web
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 There is a marvelously mordant quality to Ed Lin’s novels, which combine depictions of the darkest criminality with a sense of the absurd. New York Times, 28 July 2022 Despite the mordant local industry, high profile international productions have continued to use Sri Lanka as a location. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2022 Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021 Her mordant wit and insight into the darkest chambers of the human heart shaped me, first as a reader and then as a writer. Hillel Italie, ajc, 11 Aug. 2022 Kafka, if translated well, as Michael Hofmann does, is so funny, and suits my mordant humor. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 The film has a mordant sense of humor, a hypnotic gracefulness and a startling emotional sincerity. Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022 Even Komireddi, a mordant critic of Indian politics, ends his book with an appreciation of what the Congress Party had built before. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Naveen Kumar, Variety, 17 Apr. 2022 Loudon, 70-something patriarch, inhabits the canopy; from folkie to singing surgeon to some measure of each, adjoining the mordant to the serious. Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021 But Stewart’s take on Diana gives this film a wicked sense of humor too, emphasizing how her mordant sarcasm clashed just as uncomfortably with the royal family as her independent streak did. David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021 But another three words, albeit unspoken, also pulse beneath this mordant and inventive satire by James Ijames: Examine your assumptions. BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021 Petite, quietly savage, with a sense of humor that can skew either goofy or mordant, Milioti, 35, is not the girl next door. New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021 The writing is brilliant, bringing to life a narrator with a penetrating gaze and a mordant, misanthropic voice. Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021 Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana’s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020 See More
Adjective
Part of DeLillo’s mordant jest of a book, and the fun of the wordplay, is that the adults are children, too — especially the niche academics. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 There is a marvelously mordant quality to Ed Lin’s novels, which combine depictions of the darkest criminality with a sense of the absurd. New York Times, 28 July 2022 Despite the mordant local industry, high profile international productions have continued to use Sri Lanka as a location. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2022 Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021 Her mordant wit and insight into the darkest chambers of the human heart shaped me, first as a reader and then as a writer. Hillel Italie, ajc, 11 Aug. 2022 Kafka, if translated well, as Michael Hofmann does, is so funny, and suits my mordant humor. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 The film has a mordant sense of humor, a hypnotic gracefulness and a startling emotional sincerity. Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022 Even Komireddi, a mordant critic of Indian politics, ends his book with an appreciation of what the Congress Party had built before. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Noun
The actors are nimble with Letts’ mordant, deceptively situational humor, and in embodying their characters’ chilling complacency. Naveen Kumar, Variety, 17 Apr. 2022 Loudon, 70-something patriarch, inhabits the canopy; from folkie to singing surgeon to some measure of each, adjoining the mordant to the serious. Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021 But Stewart’s take on Diana gives this film a wicked sense of humor too, emphasizing how her mordant sarcasm clashed just as uncomfortably with the royal family as her independent streak did. David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021 But another three words, albeit unspoken, also pulse beneath this mordant and inventive satire by James Ijames: Examine your assumptions. BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021 Petite, quietly savage, with a sense of humor that can skew either goofy or mordant, Milioti, 35, is not the girl next door. New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021 The writing is brilliant, bringing to life a narrator with a penetrating gaze and a mordant, misanthropic voice. Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021 Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana’s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
Adjective and Noun
Middle French, present participle of mordre to bite, from Latin mordēre; perhaps akin to Sanskrit mṛdnāti he presses, rubs
First Known Use
Adjective
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun
1791, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1836, in the meaning defined above
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