satyric

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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

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

The competitor was obliged to send in three tragedies called a trilogy, together with what was called a satyric play.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton

The 'Alcestis' was entered by Euripides as a satyric play, but it only in parts approaches the characteristics of such a play.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton