(a.) 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.
(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(3) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
(4) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(5) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some recent statements on gay marriage from Ireland: "This is really a kind of a satire on marriage that is being conducted by the gay lobby.
(8) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(9) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
(10) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
(11) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(12) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(13) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(14) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
(16) "But I think, as comics, we need to be braver and address what's happening in the world, and in this country, with satire based on real knowledge of the political situation."
(17) We wear its many dysfunctions as a badge of honour, proudly swapping real-life stories that elsewhere in the world would belong in the realms of sci-fi or satire.
(18) In a related development, on Saturday, I was supposed to host a discussion with Roger Drew, a writer on the political satire The Thick of It , about the 2012 Leveson-inspired Goolding inquiry episode .
(19) Laughing in the face of danger: the state of satire in the Muslim world Read more “The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table.
(20) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.
Satirist
Definition:
(n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
(2) This is too much pressure, too much burden on the satirist.
(3) Everyone was watching it,” recalls Bassem Youssef , the Cairo surgeon turned satirist who helmed the show.
(4) Another of his friends, the satirist Craig Brown , once described him as moving in a world without friction, as if never having known heartbreak.
(5) It was the first such publication in post-revolutionary Iran, maintaining its dominance for more than two decades after its debut, adding monthly and annual editions as well as producing a new generation of satirists and cartoonists.
(6) Besides Carr, the panel included US anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado, US author and satirist PJ O’Rourke, international security analyst Lydia Khalil, and US defence and politics analyst Crispin Rovere.
(7) It’s hate speech.” Bassem Youssef, a former Egyptian talk show host, satirist and popular comedian, criticized Trump on Twitter .
(8) He could laugh at himself in the style of the most sophisticated political satirist, and move on to threaten thunder and revolution from the rostrum.
(9) • Nish Kumar is at the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nish Kumar: What can a satirist do with our post-truth politics?
(10) It is not clear if Morsi himself took umbrage or whether his entourage has given instructions to silence the satirist – or at least remind him of the line not to cross.
(11) Burmese satirist Zarganar was recently freed after almost three years in jail for the heinous crime of speaking to foreign media about the devastating effects of a cyclone.
(12) Labour's candidate, the satirist and author John O'Farrell, called on the BBC to leave a seat empty where Hutchings would have sat rather than fill it with a substitute.
(13) The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef , has ended his show because he feels it is no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
(14) His approval ratings are even lower than his morals, and the satirist Stephen Colbert (playing himself) is ridiculing Underwood’s “America Works” plan to increase jobs but reduce welfare benefits.
(15) Egypt’s most popular satirist, Bassem Youssef, has joined the Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F Kennedy School of Government as a resident fellow for the spring semester, eight months after winding up his TV show because he felt it was no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
(16) A consummate journalist, scintillating satirist and unrivalled chronicler of modern life and so much more.
(17) He was a film producer, satirist, television pioneer, theatre director, raconteur, wit and public speaker of boundless brio and enthusiasm.
(18) The great American satirist PJ O’Rourke was standing next to me, so I congratulated him on stumbling upon an auto-parodic British scene.
(19) Like all satirists, he assumed that humans should behave compassionately and morally.
(20) The satirists were completely disregarded as news producers continued to make ever more melodramatic, repetitive and graphically absurd programmes.