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
The festival culminated in the production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the great theatre of Dionysus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
The lines which have relation to Mr. More are so elegantly satyric, that it probably will not displease our readers to find them inserted here.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
In the drama of Thespis we find the satyric drama confounded with tragedy, and the persons of the chorus frequently representing satyrs.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
