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    satire
    [ noun ]
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
    <noun.communication>
    he used sarcasm to upset his opponentirony is wasted on the stupid
    Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own


    Satire \Sat"ire\ (?; in Eng. often ?; 277), n. [L. satira,
    satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various
    kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a
    mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat,
    satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See {Sate}, {Sad}, a., and cf.
    {Saturate}.]
    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.

    Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade;
    burlesque; wit; humor.

    1. These are the great ones, the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes-Merrie Melodies classics that will keep you in stitches with clever lines, biting satire and unrivaled cartoon artwork.
    2. The event in downtown Wroclaw was staged by the opposition group Orange Alternative, which often uses satire to poke fun at Poland's communist government.
    3. Sly satire, hints of farce - and a brave assault on dogma and bigotry.
    4. The bobby-soxer sequences are almost goofy enough for satire, though they apparently are meant to be taken straight.
    5. This drama (final episode at 9.25 on BBC2 tonight, heaven only knows what sort of a record rating it will get) is a satire about the social mores of Londoners in the 1970s.
    6. Aside from the question of Mr. Trudeau's inker-who-gets-no-byline, there is these days discussion of the satire itself.
    7. "Hal had a genius for finding the humor and beauty in the most unlikely places," said Bud Cort, who starred in "Harold and Maude," the black satire about a suicidal young man who falls for a geriatric swinger played by the late Ruth Gordon.
    8. The tall, trim Howard graduate still delivers a well-greased oration, complete with skilled social satire and militant zeal.
    9. I would venture that the satire lies in their illusion that they dance. I saw Momix on Wednesday night at Sadler's Wells as a ten day season got under way.
    10. Wick said he sees the birds as a way to inject satire and humor into art.
    11. Political satire doesn't engage Mr. Mazursky nearly as much as the questions of artistic and personal development.
    12. He's the butt of jokes and the object of satire.
    13. A beauty contest in the '50s judged by a "fado" singer dressed in black is a biting satire on the music identified with Lisbon and made famous outside Portugal by Amalia Rodrigues.
    14. Hazouri, who campaigned in 1987 on a plank of getting rid of the tolls, is being bombarded with satire.
    15. He became nationally known through his appearances in "That Was The Week That Was," the British Broadcasting Corp.'s innovative former TV satire show that helped set the pace for the so-called "Swinging '60s" in Britain.
    16. Galich's satire about official hypocrisy, the apathy of the Soviet masses and the labor camps that dot the nation made him unpopular with authorities.
    17. Below stairs, an entire petty larceny of servants cheat their way through life. Behind Grub Street lies Fielding's satire of the dim George II, the pretentious Queen Caroline and their lecherous son Frederick Prince of Wales.
    18. Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich credits recent Soviet moves toward artistic freedom for his plan to present the world premiere of a long-suppressed musical satire written by the late composer Dmitri Shostakovich to ridicule the Stalinist regime.
    19. Gay deserves more stringency, for this is funny social satire which pillories the usual eighteenth-century targets (lawyers, medics, bankers) by siding with the underworld of pimps and pick-pockets.
    20. "Zerograd," a satire about life after glasnost in the Soviet Union by Soviet director Karen Chakhnazarov, has won the Gold Hugo, the top award in the Chicago International Film Festival.
    21. Though it sounds like a Mel Brooks satire, author Richard Saul Wurman believes thousands, perhaps millions, suffer from the condition.
    22. The first night box office was 13. The Irish Times wanted less tragedy and more satire from the play to increase its longevity.
    23. Mr. Haraszti delights in paradox, parody, irony and satire.
    24. "Good times for satire are generally bad times for the Republic," says Mr. Marlette, who last month won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
    25. Under normal circumstances, the week also might have been a fit topic for satire.
    26. Newman put sarcasm and deep satire in "Song for the Dead." Curtis-Hall sings the show's most thoroughly serious song, in his Army uniform.
    27. He won the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, for his first book, "Midnight's Children," a broad satire on post-independence India.
    28. Alice Goodman, the librettist, explains that it is neither satire nor psychodrama but a "heroic opera."
    29. This is a satire about the Gulf war.
    30. The scene in which this imperial couple recoil in disbelief and horror as the soldiers begin tying them, prior to their execution in December 1989, is altogether unforgettable, not only for its horror but also for its resemblance to satire.
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