Biting humor

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

There is nothing cute or diminutive about Aaliya's accidental blue hair, biting humor, solitary ways – or her semi-automatic AK-47.

Through his characteristically biting humor and efficient choreography — like Ms. Mola's aerobic gesticulations as she gazes into the mirror and chants, "I love and approve of myself" — Mr. Ferver elucidates issues of class disparity and the cyclical nature of exploitation.

Even if you pride yourself on your cynicism, biting humor, or general edginess, these qualities can be conveyed with warmth.

A master at wordplay, biting humor, sarcasm, and black idiomatic signifying and speechifying, Malcolm had no peer.

The scene is severely lacking in the irony, biting humor, and cosmic ridiculousness that Terence articulated and which I embrace and try to represent.

Most people who would pick up a work of satire have at least some basic familiarity with current events, especially major ones, and you can almost always find someone who appreciates biting humor on them.

Ms. Peet writes easily flowing dialogue, laced with biting humor and a brash streak of vulgarity.

Despite these elisions, Khakpour's biting humor and acute cultural observations carry the book.

In 1971, the biting humor was in the truth of it.

Sagel's story is written with a dark and biting humor that evokes tears of laughter and stings of recognition.

It's a difficult topic, but Shteyngart succeeds in spades, with biting humor and deep empathy for his characters.