SATIRE
\sˈata͡ɪ͡ə], \sˈataɪə], \s_ˈa_t_aɪə]\
Definitions of SATIRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
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By Noah Webster.
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A kind of literature, usually poetry, in which vice and folly are held up to ridicule; a single work of literature of this sort; sarcasm.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The employment of sarcasm, irony, or ridicule; any writing in which vice or folly is held up to ridicule.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A composition, generally in verse, in which the vices or follies of the time arc held up to reprobation or ridicule; severity of remark or denunciation; sarcasm; ridicule.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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