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Definition

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

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

satire = criticism in a humorous way

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

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