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
Now they all took shape satyric, like hideous heads thrust out of the dark to loll their tongues at him.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Critias, the well-known reactionary politician, the chief of the Thirty Tyrants, is placed amongst the atheists on the strength of a passage in a satyric drama, Sisyphus.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Ingeborg Andersen
Our Hans Andersen is too weak in the wrist, has not arm strong enough "to crack the satyric thong."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
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