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

There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second, the comic, third, the satyric.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The lines which have relation to Mr. More are so elegantly satyric, that it probably will not displease our readers to find them inserted here.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus

The satyric is adorned with groves, dens, and mountains, and other rural objects.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John