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Satire   /sˈætˌaɪər/   Listen
noun
Satire  n.  
1.
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
2.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Synonyms: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.





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"Satire" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinking what I shall say I have provided for him. It must be a personating of himself; a satire against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery of the infinite flatteries ...
— The Life of Timon of Athens • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]
... me—chiefly, I think, by its good-nature. The writer of these very up-to-date paternal admonitions is supposed to be one Sir Benjamin Budgen, Bart, "of Budgen House, Fleet Street, E.C. and Cedar Court, Twickenham, Middlesex." The addresses tell you what to expect—a satire on the methods of popular journalism. This in fact is what you get, but the satire is so neat (and withal so genial) and Mr. Max Rittenberg has so happy a knack of conveying character in a few lines that you are simply bound to enjoy reading him. One other facility ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 • Various
... sweetness of voice and mien lent to his words an influence which no amount of gall or satire could have imparted; and, in the brief silence that ensued, Salome's heart was suddenly smitten with a humiliating consciousness of her childish flippancy,—her utter inferiority to this man, who seemed to walk serenely in a starry plane far beyond ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... "The doctor has been putting you up to that! It won't wash! I don't refer to your shirt cuff," she added with deep satire. ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte
... untranslatable French word "sale." But nearer home, one of your most brilliant writers, Mr. Henry James, has given us an equally profitable study in his novelette, What Maisie Knew, which I presume is intended as a satire on freedom of divorce, but which again can only be characterized by the ...
— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins


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