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mordant
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mordant as in:  mordant satire

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    And to the students of Gravesend who thus chafed against their bonds, the only accepted tone was caustic—was biting, mordant, bitter, scathing sarcasm, the juicy vocabulary of which Owen Meany had already learned from my grandmother.†  (source)
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    He thinks, with a certain mordant irony, that she may also be the only one who would satisfy all of his mother's oft-hinted requirements, or almost all: Grace is not, for instance, rich.†  (source)
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    The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself.†  (source)
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    He had a sense of humor, she knew; there was a streak of mordant wit in him that was sometimes not unlike Jace's.†  (source)
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    The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man's ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease.†  (source)
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    He was smart and well educated, and he had a mordant wit that she appreciated, especially given her current predicament.†  (source)
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    Nor did I write letters or indite in my notebook any of those gnomic lines—ranging from the mordant to the apocalyptic and aping in style the worst of both Cyril Connolly and Andre Gideby which I strove to maintain a subsidiary career as diarist.†  (source)
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    There was a mordant edge to Rambert's voice.†  (source)
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    They didn't harass tourists, not unless they looked in a suitcase and found a copy of Graham Greene's mordant, anti-Duvalierist novel of Haiti, The Comedians.†  (source)
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    "I quite agree," said Miss Lavish, who had several times tried to interrupt his mordant wit.†  (source)
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    Francoise must often, from the next room, have heard these mordant sarcasms levelled at herself, the mere framing of which in words would not have relieved my aunt's feelings sufficiently, had they been allowed to remain in a purely immaterial form, without the degree of substance and reality which she added to them by murmuring them half-aloud.†  (source)
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    The dramatic reason for making the clergyman what Mrs Warren calls "an old stick-in-the-mud," whose son, in spite of much capacity and charm, is a cynically worthless member of society, is to set up a mordant contrast between him and the woman of infamous profession, with her well brought-up, straightforward, hardworking daughter.†  (source)
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    The dwarf had been whetting the edge of his axe and making some mordant jest when Bronn spotted the banner the riders carried before them, the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn, sky-blue and white.†  (source)
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