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SATIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn
Example:
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
Synonyms:
caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("satire" is a kind of...):
humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)
Attribute:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
unsarcastic (not sarcastic)
Derivation:
satiric; satirical (exposing human folly to ridicule)
satirise (ridicule with satire)
satirist (a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm)
satirize (ridicule with satire)
