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

Of the hundred and twenty dramas ascribed to Euripides, there have come down to us complete eighteen tragedies and one satyric drama, "Cyclops," beside numerous fragments.

From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides

And the satyric comedies which he wrote himself in his native language, show of how merry and jovial a temperament he was in this way.

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

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