Example sentences for: mordantly

How can you use “mordantly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Virtually all of them are derogatory, and some of them are so mordantly mean that I can only lament their loss--perhaps to a precursor wave of today's political correctitude?

  • Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) positively glows for the film, calling it a "mordantly hilarious cri de coeur ." But most critics aren't so enchanted: Although "there are lots of punchy lines," the "one-joke movie doesn't have all that much to say" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). (Click for David Edelstein's review in Slate , and here to find out more about Brooks.)


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