satyric
Example Sentences
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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
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
After the three tragic pieces was performed a satyric drama, to relieve the mind from the strain of tragedy, and perhaps also as a conventional tribute to the jollity of the god of wine.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin
Now they all took shape satyric, like hideous heads thrust out of the dark to loll their tongues at him.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
It cannot have been meant to be played, as a fourth piece, instead of a regular satyric drama.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
