Crossword-Solution: MORDANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Mordant | a. | Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe. |
| Mordant | a. | Serving to fix colors. |
| Mordant | n. | Any corroding substance used in etching. |
| Mordant | n. | Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes. |
| Mordant | n. | Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere. |
| Mordant | v. t. | To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MORDANT | anagram | DORMANT |
We have 28 clues for the answer “MORDANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sharply sarcastic, as wit | 1 answer |
| Sarcastic, as speech, wit, etc. | 1 answer |
| Caustic, as wit | 1 answer |
| Caustic in manner | 1 answer |
| Bitingly sarcastic | 2 answers |
| Biting, as humor | 2 answers |
| Bitterly sarcastic | 3 answers |
| Sharply sarcastic | 3 answers |
| Scathingly sarcastic | 3 answers |
| erosive | 4 answers |
| DYE manufacturing substance | 6 answers |
| spiked | 9 answers |
| biting wit | 10 answers |
| AIDS IN DYEING PROCESS | 11 answers |
| A SUBSTANCE USED TO TREAT LEATHER OR OTHER MATERIALS BEFORE DYEING | 11 answers |
| Scathing | 17 answers |
| Astringent | 20 answers |
| Mocking | 22 answers |
| acerb | 23 answers |
| Corrosive. | 23 answers |
| Dyestuff | 31 answers |
| CAUSTIC ___ | 42 answers |
| Biting | 46 answers |
| Pungent | 53 answers |
| Vitriolic | 56 answers |
| Sarcastic | 69 answers |
| incisive | 75 answers |
| CUTTING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MORDANT (5)
Kinglake’s mordant pen depicts with felicity and compression the men of Downing Street, who without military experience or definite political aim, thwarted, criticised, over-ruled, tormented, their much-enduring General.
But it is in these seconds of pause and doubt that great commanders assert themselves; it is these electric seconds from which the hero gathers his vital lightning and forges his mordant bolt.
Guy de Maupassant, with his keen mordant irony and his hard vivid style, strips life of the few poor rags that still cover her, and shows us foul sore and festering wound.
Ladies that soar in the realms of Rose-Pink, whose language wears the nodding plumes of intellectual conceit, are traceable to Philaminte and Belise of the Femmes Savantes: and the mordant witty women have the tongue of Celimene.
You don't do murder in my house, wherever else you may do it.” “And now better lid 'im to the nirrest polissstation; or weel you go and tell the poliss yourself?” asked the Portuguese, in the same tone of mordant irony.
Quotes with MORDANT (3)
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.
Tegularius was a willful, moody person who refused to fit into his society. Every so often he would display the liveliness of his intellect. When highly stimulated he could be entrancing; his mordant wit sparkled and he overwhelmed everyone with the audacity and richness of his sometimes somber inspirations. But basically he was incurable, for he did not want to be cured; he cared nothing for co-ordination and a place in the scheme of things. He loved nothing but his freedom,…
We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1963–2022).