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a way of making fun of people or ideas — often through exaggerationor:
a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses such humor
- He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice
- He read and reread the works of Stephen Potter, the English writer who coined the terms one-upmanship and gamesmanship, not as social satire but as a manual of practical stratagems.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Mademoiselle Danglars was still the same — cold, beautiful, and satirical.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexander, the younger brother, was sickly, clever, fond of books and drawing, and full of satirical remarks.Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Tales and Fantasies
- A poem of the satirical kind cannot indeed be put down to any author earlier than Homer; though many such writers probably there were.Aristotle -- The Poetics of Aristotle
- A famous Italian author of the sixteenth century, who wrote comedies, satires, and a metrical romance, Orlando Furioso.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
- I had not expected him to be, and was not surprised myself; or my observation of similar practical satires would have been but scanty.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- The male residents snickered, glad not to be a target of Raspton's satire.Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
- Even in anger, he was suave and satirical, and whisky usually served to intensify these qualities.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- That is some satire, keen and critical, Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Feeling dissatisfied, he rushed to the other extreme, and wrote a satire, which was too libellous to print.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- 'That's the relics left in you of your old satirical tendencies.'Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- I do not object so much to the cynical and satirical fables as to those in which momentous truths are taught by monkeys and foxes.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- Mordred wore his ridiculous shoes contemptuously: they were a satire on himself.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- She flashed a slightly defiant look at him; it was clear to her that he had been drawing a satirical portrait of her beforehand.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- It was some foul parody, some infamous, ignoble satire.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- But visitors who had been to the capital had a lot to report, and it was easy enough for them as outsiders to be satirical.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- Mademoiselle Danglars was still the same—cold, beautiful, and satirical.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, is heard as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
satire = criticism in a humorous way
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