pasquinade

Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely!

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

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

I will cry ‘bravo’ to every pasquinade Dickens lets off on that demented class, which cried out every time they saw that buffalo-skin over-coat appear: ‘The Gods have come down to us.’

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti

That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

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