Look up: satire

1. Satire
   a literary work which belittles or savagely attacks its subject. A distinction is sometimes made between direct and indirect satire.
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2. satire
   a play in which abuses, follies, stupidities, vices are ridiculed. Example: 'If Men Played Cards as Women Do,' a satire by George S. Kaufman, 4m.
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3. Satire
   A mode of writing which exposes the failings of individuals, societies or institutions to ridicule and scorn. Its tone varies from tolerant amusement to bitter indignation (as in Sassoon's war poetry).
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4. satire
   Genre of literary or dramatic work that ridicules human pretensions or exposes social evils. Satire is related to parody in its intention to mock, but satire tends to be more subtle and to mock an...
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5. Satire
   Sat'ire noun [ Latin satira , satura , from satura (sc. lanx ) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, from satur full of food, sated, from sat , <...
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6. satire
   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....
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7. Satire
   • (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. • (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.
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8. Satire
   (from the article `Ariosto, Ludovico`) During this period, from 1517 to 1525, he composed his seven satires (titled Satire), modeled after the Sermones (satires) of Horace. The first ...
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9. satire
   artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ... [19 related articles]
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10. satire
    satire 1. The use of wit, especially irony, sarcasm, and ridicule, to criticize faults. 2. A literary work that uses satire (witty language used to convey insults or scorn); or the branch of literature made up of such works in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. ...
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11. satire
    Literature which mocks human weaknesses, social circumstances, and so on by using irony and sarcasm. Its basic means is exaggeration. It always takes on humorous form, but is usually intended to criticise and hurt people. It means 'diminishing' a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement or contempt.
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12. satire
    satire, term applied to any work of literature or art whose objective is ridicule. It is more easily recognized than defined. From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises—vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality—and ...
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13. Satire
    Art holding vice or folly up to ridicule, or lampooning individuals through the use of irony or sarcasm. -- L.V.
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14. Satire
    Mocking commentaries on social, political and/or economic policies. Satires are usually directed at the body politic (i.e., institutions) but can include scathing reflections on personalities as well
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15. satire
    Genre of literary or dramatic work that ridicules human pretensions or exposes social evils. Satire is related to parody in its intention to mock, but satire tends to be more subtle and to mock an attitude or a belief, whereas parody tends to mock a particular work (such as a poem) by imitating its s...
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16. Satire
    `Satire` is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement. Although sa...
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