All 12 Uses of
satire
in
Middlemarch
- He always saw the joke of any satire against himself.†
Chpt 1
- Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.†
Chpt 1
- She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.†
Chpt 2
- Naumann's pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Her back is very large; she seems to have sat for that," said Rosamond, not meaning any satire, but thinking how red young Plymdale's hands were, and wondering why Lydgate did not come.†
Chpt 3
- Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous prediction, and he meant now to be guarded.†
Chpt 3
- And as to roaring myself red and that kind of thing—these men never understand what is good satire.†
Chpt 4
- Satire, you know, should be true up to a certain point.†
Chpt 4
- Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.†
Chpt 5
- This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire.†
Chpt 6
- This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire.†
Chpt 6
- This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting—it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(satire as in: wrote a satire) a way of making fun of people or ideas -- often through exaggeration
or:
a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses such humor