satyric

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Despite his gift for sharp dialogue, wild humor and satyric satire he leaves the reader with an exasperating feeling of emptiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has trod these boards as the satyric Bluebeard, as Ebenezer Scrooge, as a neurotic shrink in Reverse Psychology, even as Rufus Foufas, a bamboozled patron of the arts in Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason for their original use of the trochaic tetrameter was that their poetry was satyric and more connected with dancing than it now is.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram

The festival culminated in the production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the great theatre of Dionysus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

The subjects of the plays of Epicharmus were chiefly mythological, that is, parodies or travesties of mythology, nearly in the style of the satyric drama of Athens.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried