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• Satire is often employed in social commentary.From the entry social commentary
• The play, taken in isolation, seems nonsensical, but it is in fact a surreal satire of recent events.From the entry in isolation
• Satirical literature can commonly be categorised as Horatian, Juvenalian or Menippean. Horatian satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.From the entry Horatian
• Rightwing media mouthpieces and ICE get both barrels in South Park’s latest zeitgeist-capturing satire.2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The…. From the entry mouthpiece
• Michael Kinnan's sendup of "Titanic" explores the liminal space between tribute and affectionate satire.2021 September 30, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “Review: In 'Never Let Go,' a Solo Performer's Heart Goes On”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry liminal space
• But Gladden uses satire and humor to keep the play from being preachy.2017 May 25, Courtney McNaull, “Local play picked for Columbus Arts Festival”, in News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 2C. From the entry Mary Poppinsesque
• It is not just politicians who find aspects of the explosion in satire unwelcome.2013 August 31, “The Satirical Verses”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851. From the entry politician
• All too credibly, he could imagine himself aging into the superannuated gigolo of Juvenal's satire.2009, Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, page 289. From the entry credibly
• Dissent or satire — especially where these matters were concerned — was unthinkable.2008, Toby Creswell, Notorious Australians, unnumbered page. From the entry ladies' lounge
• This wildly inventive piece of social satire may go down like a big old silly pill.2007 November 9, “THEATER REVIEW: Laughs help bitter meds go down”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From the entry silly pill
• So far faan fiction could be divided into two classes, fantasy and satire.1991 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp that Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 9, page 35. From the entry faan fiction
• This is the world--the only world, alas--in which Carpenter's antiyuppie and anti-Reagan satire has meaning.1988 November 18, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Liberals Kick Ass”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antiyuppie
• “She must be wonderfully fascinating,” said Mrs Morel, with scathing satire.c. 1911, D.H. Lawrence, third draft of what became Sons and Lovers, in Helen Baron (editor), Paul Morel, Cambridge University Press…. From the entry that
• Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different.1910, Charles Shirley Potts, Crime and the treatment of the criminal: Issue 8. From the entry satirize
• The paradoxical use of an overture at the end of a concert occasionally gave rise to satire in the musical press.2017 April 27, Steven Vande Moortele, The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry overture
• The plucked instrument's harplike sound accompanies the jali's song—praise for patrons, histories and genealogies, satire, political commentary, and poetic recitation.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry kora
• She is consistently but not deformingly alert to irony, to satire, to humor in its high and low forms.2015 November 17, Dwight Garner, “Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More”, in New York Times. From the entry deformingly
• Animutation is satire, irony, and social criticism packed into one.2009, Marcel Danesi, “I-power: Pop Culture in the Age of the Internet”, in X-rated! The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture, New…. From the entry animutation
• The satire takes a new twist when, on his second voyage, Gulliver visits Brobdingnag, whose inhabitants tower above him.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.151. From the entry Brobdingnag
• Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature.1986 February 15, Lars Eighner, “A Homosexual Norman Mailer?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5. From the entry snub
• The satire here is more heavy-handed and the tone more Juvenalian than in any passage in the first volume.1986, Emory Elliott, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810, Oxford University Press, page 191. From the entry Juvenalian
• What little has survived is, again, literary and, again, due to glossism, i.e., the literary exigencies of color, fun, and satire.1986, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, Graeca et Románica scripta selecta - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry glossism
• "Oh," Paul said singsongingly, to the point of satire, "is that the guy who has heard of evolution and remains unimpressed?"1960, Peter Martin, The Building, Little, Brown, published 1960, page 76. From the entry singsongingly
• “Nightmare Abbey” is an excellent example of this satire.1925 February 22, “In Thomas Love Peacock the Plot Does Not Matter […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Marionetta
• With all the ridicule, satire, hissing and rotten eggs showered upon long windedness, it still remains with us.1916 February 15, “Bodemann’s Aphorisms”, in Romaine Pierson, editor, The Practical Druggist and Pharmaceutical Review of Reviews, volume…. From the entry who would have thunk it
• Epic, tragedy, lyric, satire, epigram itself— Martial has tried them all and dropped them, because he feels himself beaten by Tucca.1908, George Saintsbury -, A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day, page 267. From the entry polypragmatism
• My position is closer to that of Dustin Griffin in his recent book—that the ludic is inherent in satire, especially the more menippean kind.2021, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates, University Press of Kentucky, unnumbered page. From the entry Menippean
• Just Like You could stand alone as the ladlit-meets-mumlit social satire that it is, its vicious wit paradoxically interwoven with tenderness and empathy.2020 September 18, Joanna Briscoe, “Just Like You by Nick Hornby review – ladlit meets mumlit”, in The Guardian. From the entry lad lit
• The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers.2018 August 24, Katherine Cross, “The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction”, in The Verge (news), Vox…. From the entry LeftTuber
• To slip past censors, Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge, cloaking their messages in protective layers of irony and satire.2011 October 26, Brook Larmer, “Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ethos
• It was my intent to mix serious issues and facts with irony and Swiftian satire to engage readers and make my points.2011 November 17, James Fallows, quoting Paul V. Kane, “Selling Taiwan to Mainland China: The Author Explains His ‘Swiftian’ Intent”, in…. From the entry Swiftian
• It’s a satire of the entertainment business set largely in New York, at an indie-film company run by a female Weinsteinian producer.2005 September 22, Boris Kachka, “The Gist: ‘The Diviners’”, in New York, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2009. From the entry Weinsteinian
• For the playwright, this has and does often take the form of satire, and perhaps the most outstanding farceur of the '60s was Joe Orton.1987 August 22, Tom Grabosky, “Who Hears an Orton?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 7. From the entry farceur
• The ecclesiastically robed Choral Majority put on the best performance of the evening, singing their popular satires on several popular hymns and patriotic anthems.1982 December 11, John Kyper, “March for Milk, Moscone: A Memory and a Tradition”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 3. From the entry ecclesiastically
• The medieval Latin equivalent of a "bourgeois" tradition is to be seen variously in comedy, goliardery, and satire, and in epistolary and expository prose.1957, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer and the French Tradition, page 251. From the entry goliardery
• His requirement for compliments, flattery, adoration and awards is so continual and extreme that it is of cartoonish proportions, with all the garishness that characterizes the most exaggerated satire.2026 February 19, Lisa Langhammer, “Trump’s ‘Cartoonish’ Monuments to Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry cartoonish
• Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up. From the entry scattershot
• It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.2018 February 23, Cassie Tongue, “The Empire Strips Back: how a Star Wars parody took the burlesque world by storm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry extravaganza

Meaning of satire

1. noun A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
2. noun A satirical work.
3. noun Severity of remark.

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Questions about satire in a sentence

How do you use satire in a sentence?

Satire is used as a noun. For example: “Satire is often employed in social commentary.”

What is a short sentence with satire?

“Satire deflates and debases.”

What does satire mean?

Satire means a literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.