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 satyric element seems, however, never to have become really popular, the fabula saltica as we know it dealing mainly with tragic or highly emotional themes.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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

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