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
There were likewise in them representations of eating parties opposite to one another, of tragic, and comic, and satyric animals, having on real clothes.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
His own tragedies—such as the Helen, the Electra, and the Orestes—had, in their several ways, contributed to destroy the meaning of satyric drama.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
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
