pasquinade
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Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.
From Time Magazine Archive
Percival responded with a sharp newspaper pasquinade, entitled "A Lecture on Nosology."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
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 Davidson, John
One evil effect of pasquinade and sneer is to put the prospective daughter-in-law on the defensive, and prepare her mind, unconsciously to herself, to regard her future husband's mother as her natural enemy.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion
Moreover, Lady Mary was purely ignorant of Miss Townley's very existence when that pasquinade was written.'
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
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