satirical

satire | American Dictionary

satire
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈsæ·tɑɪər/
literature
a humorous way of criticizing people or ideas to show that they have faults or are wrong, or a piece of writing or a play that uses this style:
[ C ]The play is a satire on corporate culture.

satirical

adjectiveus/səˈtɪər·ɪ·kəl/
satirical humor

satirize

verb[ T ]us/ˈsæt̬·əˌrɑɪz/
Garry Trudeau would satirize him in his Doonesbury comic strip.

Examples of satire

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As the old justification runs, satire offends less when directed at a type instead of an individual.
He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.
Would we not expect to find at least some bawdy allusions in male jokes and social satires?
This develops as negotiations between historical sentimentality and radical memorialization, and between pantomimic burlesque and morally driven satire.
This type of humour, satire, can be difficult to translate outside its immediate context.
Nor were the explorers alone the objects of the skit's satire.
It was also carried out through such media as satire and theatrical performance, in both of which endeavors we can find pandits once again active.
These changes have the same effect - downplaying satire and emphasising the romantic quest - and perhaps even the same cause.
The comic mode works through parody and satire, puncturing the inflated gestures of the sentimental style.
Or, in a final paraphrase, might the term suggest a satire on tragedy?
His prodigious output includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies.
Ignoring the peculiar vowels here, we discover another problem with the rhyming consonants in satire and nature.
From slapstick to satire to biting tragedy, the frenetic pace of this scene was driven by the powerful image of walking.
Poetic satire, as employed here, or poetic burlesque, works by thrust and parry, the cut of the pen falling where it may.
These morbid satires are paralleled, or perhaps even buttressed, by a related fear of women.
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