All 6 Uses
satire
in
Jude the Obscure
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- "Your cousin is so terribly clever that she criticizes it unmercifully," said Phillotson, with good-humoured satire.†
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- Everything seemed turning to satire.†
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- If Sue had written that in satire, he could hardly forgive her; if in suffering—ah, that was another thing!†
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- The kettle of his gift sang with some satire in its note, to his mind; and to change the subject he said, "Do you know of any good readable edition of the uncanonical books of the New Testament?†
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- Don't satirize me: it cuts like a knife!†
Part 6standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- But 'the world and its ways have a certain worth' (I suppose): therefore I concede a repetition of the ceremony...Don't crush all the life out of me by satire and argument, I implore you!†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(satire as in: wrote a satire) a way of making fun of people or ideas -- often through exaggeration
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses mocking humor -- often through exaggeration