satyric

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He has trod these boards as the satyric Bluebeard, as Ebenezer Scrooge, as a neurotic shrink in Reverse Psychology, even as Rufus Foufas, a bamboozled patron of the arts in Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite his gift for sharp dialogue, wild humor and satyric satire he leaves the reader with an exasperating feeling of emptiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our Hans Andersen is too weak in the wrist, has not arm strong enough "to crack the satyric thong."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

There has always been a touch of the satyric in Dinky-Dunk’s attitude toward Peter’s weekly letter to my boy.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

But Achæus the Eretrian, in his Alcmæon, a satyric drama, calls the Delphians makers of sauces, in these words:— I see the sauce-makers, and spit on them.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us