Definitions of satire

1. 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

2. 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.

3. A species of poetry, exposing and turning to ridicule vice or folly: severity of remark: ridicule.

4. Discourse or poem censuring vice or folly; witty or cutting censure.

5. Satiric, satirical.

6. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or ridicule; any writing in which vice or folly is held up to ridicule.

7. 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.

8. Such witty keenness and severity of written composition on the vices and follies of the age as tend to bring them into contempt; keenness and severity of remark; irony; sarcasm.

9. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.