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Six example sentences with mordant, each labelled with its topic.
His mordant essays on suburban committees made friends of strangers and enemies of every neighbor he described.
Literature
The film's mordant narrator describes the office as a place where ambition goes quietly to be photocopied.
Movies
Her mordant cartoons about the art fair were bought, framed, and hung by the very dealers they mocked.
Art
The backbencher's mordant one liners during the budget debate made the evening news more often than the budget did.
Politics
The singer's mordant lyrics about small town gossip were adopted, without irony, by the very town she wrote about.
Music
Voltaire's mordant wit spared nobody, and his short novel mocks the claim that ours is the best of all possible worlds.
Philosophy
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