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

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

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

There stands the Palace Borea—a truly princely pile, built in the last Renaissance style of splendour, with sea-nymphs and dolphins, and satyric heads, half lips, half leafage, round about its doors and windows.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes