mordaciously
mordantly

From this point on the play takes a mordantly comic turn.

At least it won't happen anytime soon, he thought mordantly.

The dark of the moon, he muttered mordantly to himself.

If he's in the caves, she realized mordantly, he had to have heard it.

Mordantly he asked his people, 'Any of you want to haggle?

"At least they are no better shots than their predecessors in the last war," he said mordantly.

Not to mention, he thought mordantly, the fact that men who know they cannot run away have no option but to fight to the death.

And, he thought mordantly, she'd probably just as soon throttle some of our peers, for that matter.

The way of hope and doom, he thought mordantly.

In a recent performance, he mordantly referred to it all as "original sin."

"If it was so brilliant," she said mordantly, "they'd never have found him again."

Perhaps being a prime target increased, however mordantly, civic pride.

Chamber and Sprinkleroom are known, most mordantly, as the central hospital.

"It's like you think we're already at war," Holt finished mordantly.

With any luck, he thought mordantly, they're not half as crazy as we are.

Some other members of the Giuliani administration mordantly referred to her as "co-mayor."

"I like to joke that I used to be retired," he said mordantly.

Yet they are also mordantly funny sendups of bourgeois manners.

So much for en suite bathrooms, she thought mordantly.

And that's only because I'm too naturally modest to think I could do it even better than that, she thought mordantly.

Which was perverse of her, she thought mordantly.

"If you don't believe the world can end," the director remarked mordantly after his screening, "come to Russia and see that it's already happening."

Employees, listening to the hollow sound of impermanence, have put their own mordantly black spin on things.

On the other hand, Sean reflected mordantly, it wasn't like they'd have anything else to waste their time on.

"That is," he went on mordantly, "assuming you exist at all.