satiric

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle French satirique, from Late Latin satiricus.

Especially was this so in satiric and didactic poetry. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies. — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
32 'The Future Town'—Paul Post.” 'I suppose that's satiric too,' he thought. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy

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