mordacious
/mɔːˈdeɪʃəs
/adjective formal
1Denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective.You've barely spoken a word all night, and haven't uttered so much as one mordacious comment....
- His mordacious warnings about the bleak future of NATO.
- The more he intermingles mordacious taunts with earnest reflections on the feelings of a man suffocated by a less than satisfying matrimony, the harder it is to take him seriously.
2(Of a person or animal) given to biting.A small-scale musical in which that mordacious man-about-necks (Dracula) figures prominently.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin mordax, mordac- 'biting' + -ious.
Rhymes
- press mold
- press-mold
- press money
- press mould
- press night
- press notice
- press number
- press office
- press officer
- press-on
- pressor
- pressoreceptor
- press (or push or hit) the panic button
- press-packed
- press-pad
- presspahn
- press pass
- press people
- press person
- press-pin
- press plate
- press pot
- press proof
- press release
- press-revise