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Sentence count:103+3Posted:2016-09-18Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: caustic remarkironysarcasmSimilar words: tireretireretiredentirelyretirementsensationinsatiableaccusationMeaning: ['sætaɪə(r)]  n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn. 
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31) Euripides' satire on the paranoia of the idealist has always been the cult play of the Attic repertoire.
32) This bawdy academic satire, with its potentially offensive laddish point of view, turns out to be a traditional romantic narrative.
33) Some ministers and city officials are outraged, saying the newspaper has crossed the line from satire to tastelessness.
34) Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
35) Simon Regan, founding editor of political satire magazine Scallywag, has died at the age of 58.
36) Yet it advertises nothing, and is certainly intended as a joke or satire.
37) Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
38) He finds deep meaning in tiny pictures from daily life and satire which were often little more than space-fillers.
39) I recommend Tartuffe about a religious imposter and La Malade Imaginaire, a satire on the medical profession.
40) The line between reportage and fiction, between social satire and sentimental snapshots, was blurring.
41) Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.
42) The poem can therefore be read as Leapor's satire on her own ambitions.
43) Light satire of people's habits contrasts sharply with the severe social criticism with which the text is larded.
44) Mayle, who now divides his time between Long Island and Provence, earns chuckles with his gentle social satire.
45) Her satire, however, is always underpinned by an awareness of women's vulnerability.
46) What was then so preposterous that it barely made sense in the realm of satire has now miraculously become a reality.
47) Political satire is a tricky thing; it's only as strong as its target.
48) Ballard's satire, however extreme, is always convincing, because its governing ideas inhabit every detail.
49) The novel has always been an excellent medium for satire.
50) Stevenson sometimes stumbles too far into academic minutiae and her satire can be flat-footed, but her London is beguiling.
51) He has made comedies, but seems quite without the vision that elevates humour to satire.
52) It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
53) His action is a satire on his boastful pretension.
54) Pompeii's graffiti includes insults, love declarations, and political satire.
55) Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation.
56) His poems participate of of satire.
57) It's a satire somewhat in the manner of Dickens.
58) Great satire needs the sustenance of great fable.
59) His words participate of the nature of satire.
60) Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
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