most satirical

ADJECTIVE

mocking

Synonyms

WEAK

abusive bantering biting bitter burlesque caustic censorious chaffing cutting cynical farcical incisive ironical lampooning mordant paradoxical parodying pungent ridiculing sarcastic sardonic spoofing taunting

ADJECTIVE

mocking

Synonyms

STRONGEST

biting caustic incisive mordant sarcastic sardonic satiric

WEAK

abusive bantering bitter burlesque censorious chaffing cutting cynical farcical ironical lampooning paradoxical parodying pungent ridiculing spoofing taunting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm kind mild nice

Example Sentences

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Raleigh, "a most satirical courtier," commands the book, but three splendid set pieces are the best of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was these attributes combined which made him of all satirists the most humorous, and of all humorists the most satirical.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

He was a young man, very smartly dressed, with a narrow and rather pale face, whose eyes held by turns the gentlest and the harshest, the most friendly and the most satirical expression.

From The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Leblanc, Maurice

"This last verse," said Ibn Al-Munajjim, "is one of the most satirical which have been composed by the later poets."

From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, Then is thy salutation honey sweet; But as the one hath no such property, So is the other most satirical.

From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)