satyric

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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

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

The Alcestis is altogether removed from the character, essentially grotesque, of a mere satyric drama.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

The satyric element seems, however, never to have become really popular, the fabula saltica as we know it dealing mainly with tragic or highly emotional themes.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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