satyric

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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

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

Moreover, it was not till late that the short plot was discarded for one of greater compass, and the grotesque diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second, the comic, third, the satyric.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The competitor was obliged to send in three tragedies called a trilogy, together with what was called a satyric play.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton