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most satirical

ADJECTIVE

mocking

Synonyms

WEAK

abusive bantering biting bitter burlesque caustic censorious chaffing cutting cynical farcical incisive ironical lampooning mordant paradoxical parodying pungent ridiculing sarcastic sardonic spoofing taunting

ADJECTIVE

mocking

Synonyms

STRONGEST

biting caustic incisive mordant sarcastic sardonic satiric

WEAK

abusive bantering bitter burlesque censorious chaffing cutting cynical farcical ironical lampooning paradoxical parodying pungent ridiculing spoofing taunting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm kind mild nice

Example Sentences

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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

But though she scrupulously forbore the smallest complaint, she failed not from time to time to cast out reflections upon fickleness and caprice the most satirical and pointed.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

This new personification of hypocrisy gives occasion to some of the author's most satirical touches as he describes his principles and practice.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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

The animal in question was no other than 'Becca Rudd's Dash, a piece of nomenclature which can only be described as the wildest and most satirical misnomer.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir