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Mordant meaning
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality. | Serving to fix a dye to a fiber.
Synonyms of Mordant
Example sentences (18)
Prose is a mordant observer of the upstairs/downstairs social dynamic.
The greater richness here lies in the film’s mordant humour and often monstrous characters.
His most mordant photographs are of Trump supporters.
His mordant and mysterious lyrics were over my head.
It’s a mordant, witty, rigorously grounded set of indie-country-rock songs about depression, divorce, the absence of God, and the consolations of art.
But for the very oil companies responsible for climate change to come asking for help, out of taxpayers’ money, that deserves nothing more than a mordant laugh.
Often very humorous - I feel the word “mordant” was invented for Raban.
When former Sydney-based board member Simon Mordant came off the board in November, it was speculated the ABC needed a Melbourne director.
Alum is essential as a mordant in the dyeing of certain cloths and was used extensively in Florence, where the main industry was textile manufacturing.
It is also used as a mordant (i.
Its use there was as a dye -fixer ( mordant ) for wool (which was one of England's primary industries, the value of which increased significantly if dyed).
Maslin felt that Mendes directed with "terrific visual flair", saying his minimalist style balanced "the mordant and bright" and that he evoked the "delicate, eroticized power-playing vignettes" of his theater work.
Morrissey and Marr's songs combined themes about ordinary people with complex, literate lyrics delivered by Morrissey with a mordant sense of humour.
Morrissey's lyrics, while superficially depressing, were often full of mordant humour; John Peel remarked that the Smiths were one of the few bands capable of making him laugh out loud.
Most natural dyes are mordant dyes and there is therefore a large literature base describing dyeing techniques.
The choice of mordant is very important as different mordants can change the final color significantly.
The printmaker then scratches through the ground with a sharp point, exposing lines of metal which the mordant acid attacks.
Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu.