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 reason for their original use of the trochaic tetrameter was that their poetry was satyric and more connected with dancing than it now is.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram

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

There has always been a touch of the satyric in Dinky-Dunk’s attitude toward Peter’s weekly letter to my boy.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)