satyric
Example Sentences
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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
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
But Achæus the Eretrian, in his Alcmæon, a satyric drama, calls the Delphians makers of sauces, in these words:— I see the sauce-makers, and spit on them.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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
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
