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
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
There has always been a touch of the satyric in Dinky-Dunk’s attitude toward Peter’s weekly letter to my boy.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
The satyric element seems, however, never to have become really popular, the fabula saltica as we know it dealing mainly with tragic or highly emotional themes.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
