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

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

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

Pratinas of Phlius, a satyric poet at Athens.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried