pasquinade
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Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.
From Time Magazine Archive
At present, however, the war between the two countries is but a war of libel and pasquinade, and the advantage hitherto has been on the side of the aggressor.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
One evil effect of pasquinade and sneer is to put the prospective daughter-in-law on the defensive, and prepare her mind, unconsciously to herself, to regard her future husband's mother as her natural enemy.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
The Roundheads, a masterly pasquinade, shows the Puritans, near ancestors of the Whigs, in their most odious and veritable colours.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers
Moreover, Lady Mary was purely ignorant of Miss Townley's very existence when that pasquinade was written.'
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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