mordant humour

'He would, if his father's the cut of your grace's honoured father,' acknowledged Keighley, with mordant humour.

She would miss Beth's mordant humour and the combination of dependability, friendliness and distance that made her such a perfect roommate.

Some rely on organic food; others on a diet of mordant humour about bleached beansprouts and carcinogenic paper napkins.

His mordant humour appealed to students, and it was by no means unusual for him to continue a lecture for half an hour in informal discussion with them.

"Uniquely for Horace, it concerns a particular social malpractice (touting for legacies), and its mordant humour has reminded many readers of Juvenal."

Admittedly it was a mordant humour that made more enemies than friends, but it was usually the truth even if it was always so cruelly barbed.

Despite her mordant humour and the daunting intellect behind it, she was obviously easy within herself, better adjusted to her own identity than Annie herself had ever felt.

In another review for The Herald, Dawn Kofie calls the novel "more than just a straightforward thriller", stating that it "combines the mundane and the bizarre with mordant humour".

Lyrical, lilting, full of rainfall and starlight (the title refers to the motion of constellations across the heavens), it is nevertheless refreshingly rigorous: curious, questioning, and shot through with mordant 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.