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Meanings of satiric in English

Exposing human folly to ridicule.

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Usage of satiric in English
1
In the field of satiric and didactic poetry, he is a master.
Halleck's New English Literature
2
Trumbull occupied the front rank of the satiric writers of that age.
History of American Literature
3
The Vietnam war in all its squalor is revisited with satiric panache.
The Irish Times
4
He showed his magnificent teeth in a flashing but somewhat satiric smile.
The Precipice: A Novel
5
They were alone there on the prairie, under the smiling satiric stars.
Where the Trail Divides
6
Near the other end of this wall a satiric landscape took place.
The Enormous Room
7
Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
Babbitt
8
Greene's satiric thrust shows that Shakespeare was becoming popular as a playwright.
Halleck's New English Literature
9
For this satiric effusion the author was banished from the court.
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
10
She stood biting her lips and smiling to herself in half-satiric, half-whimsical fashion.
Montlivet
11
Their send up was supposed to work like a satiric corrective.
The Irish Times
12
The masterpiece of modern Norwegian poetry was, still, the satiric cycle of Welhaven.
Henrik Ibsen
13
There was a touch of her satiric humor in her tone.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
14
Bovill produces a little model of the staircase, which prompts some satiric applause.
The sealed letter
15
Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.
Carrie
16
Comedy here sheds its satiric harshness and acquires a reformist beneficence.
The Guardian
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