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mordant
Synonyms and Antonyms of mordant
- a mordant review of the movie that compared it to having oneʼs teeth pulled for two hours
brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartish
incisive, keen, poignant, trenchant
cynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wry
facetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheek
acrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolic
harsh, rough, severe, stringent
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, terse
Synonym Discussion of mordant
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- caustic comments
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- mordant reviews of the play
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- acrid invective
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- a scathing satire
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