The script boasts a good deal of mordant humor, along with an underlying mood of melancholy.

We share the mordant humor of our kind.

It's the opposite of Pollyanna-ism; this group goes in for naughty, mordant humor that deflects all the negativity and prejudice.

Although the film contains moments of mordant humor, it mainly takes a serious tone that the shallow nature of the material doesn't support.

"I wouldn't imagine so," Benjamin agreed with mordant humor.