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Definition
a way of making fun of people or ideas — often through exaggeration
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a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses such humor
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a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses such humor
- It is nonsense to have such thoughts in this kind of case, which is rather one for satirical laughter than for tragedy.5 — The Woman Pays (8% in)
- He expressed assent in loving satire, looking into her face.4 — The Consequence (34% in)
- But he regretted the pleasantry; it was too near a satire.4 — The Consequence (87% in)
- The outdoor air had apparently taken away from him all tendency to act on impulse; she knew that he saw her without irradiation—in all her bareness; that Time was chanting his satiric psalm at her then— Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate; Thy face shall be no more fair at the fall of thy fate.5 — The Woman Pays (6% in)
- But, in default of that, it behoved her to do something; to be their Providence; for to Tess, as to not a few millions of others, there was ghastly satire in the poet's lines— Not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory do we come.6 — The Convert (87% in)
There are no more uses of "satire" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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