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

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

If, as the old pasquinade had it the Barbarini did what the Barbarians did not, how much worse than barbarians have these modern civilizers done!

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Percival responded with a sharp newspaper pasquinade, entitled "A Lecture on Nosology."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

The pasquinade with its supplements comprised no less than 351 folios, 280 of which were devoted to the answer proper.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)