pasquinade

Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will cry ‘bravo’ to every pasquinade Dickens lets off on that demented class, which cried out every time they saw that buffalo-skin over-coat appear: ‘The Gods have come down to us.’

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti

At present, however, the war between the two countries is but a war of libel and pasquinade, and the advantage hitherto has been on the side of the aggressor.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson

It was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various

And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely!

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.

From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield