satyric

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The festival culminated in the production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the great theatre of Dionysus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

There were likewise in them representations of eating parties opposite to one another, of tragic, and comic, and satyric animals, having on real clothes.

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

Moreover, it was not till late that the short plot was discarded for one of greater compass, and the grotesque diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)