SATIRE

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Meaning:

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Example:

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own

Synonyms:

caustic remark; irony; sarcasm; satire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("satire" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

Attribute:

sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

unsarcastic (not sarcastic)

Derivation:

satiric; satirical (exposing human folly to ridicule)

satirise (ridicule with satire)

satirist (a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm)

satirize (ridicule with satire)