most satirical
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Raleigh, "a most satirical courtier," commands the book, but three splendid set pieces are the best of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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How is it that the wittiest and most satirical people on earth will consent to wear upon their heads a bit of stove-pipe?—as one of our great writers has called it.
From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, Then is thy salutation honey sweet; But as the one hath no such property, So is the other most satirical.
From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
He was a young man, very smartly dressed, with a narrow and rather pale face, whose eyes held by turns the gentlest and the harshest, the most friendly and the most satirical expression.
From The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Leblanc, Maurice
When in 1802 the Edinburgh Review was founded by the young and aspiring lights of the northern metropolis, Brougham was the most ready, the most versatile and the most satirical of all its contributors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various