Mordant

By Deane Barker

Definition: sarcastic, sharply witty or biting

Why I Looked It Up

A book discussing Henry Kissenger’s “mordant humor.”

(For the record, Henry Kissinger is not the first person I think of when considering the definition of this word.)

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