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    SATIRE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Witty language used to convey insults or scornplay

    Example:

    Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own

    Synonyms:

    caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("satire" is a kind of...):

    humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

    Attribute:

    sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

    unsarcastic (not sarcastic)

    Derivation:

    satiric; satirical (exposing human folly to ridicule)

    satirise (ridicule with satire)

    satirist (a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm)

    satirize (ridicule with satire)

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