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

STRANGER: And so our satyric drama has been played out; and the troop of Centaurs and Satyrs, however unwilling to leave the stage, have at last been separated from the political science.

From Statesman by Plato

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)

The lines which have relation to Mr. More are so elegantly satyric, that it probably will not displease our readers to find them inserted here.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus