satire

[US]/ˈsætaɪə(r)/
[UK]/ˈsætaɪər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a work of literature or art that uses humor, irony, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's vices or foolishness.

Example Sentences

a stinging satire on American politics.

(on, upon) a scathing satire on sb.

his biting satire on corruption and power.

a satire entitled ‘The Rise of the Meritocracy’.

Satire is often a form of protest against injustice.

The movie is a clever satire on the advertising industry.

Some of Aesop's Fables are satires.

the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Secondly, hidden sharp point of jocosity speech expresses novelist"s satire and jeer in amusing context.

Real-world Examples

I'm watching a great satire called Frankie.

Source: CET-6 Listening Past Exam Questions (with Translations)

So he thinks he's satirizing something that's already a satire?

Source: The Good Wife Season 5

Clayton Davis says McKay's satire is all too real.

Source: VOA Standard English Entertainment

This is a keen satire on those having blind faith in the eye.

Source: Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1

They screen flagged words, but cannot detect cultural nuance or satire.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The movie is a satire on the power struggle that follows Stalin's death.

Source: BBC Listening Collection February 2018

Oh, please don't forget. The " Onion" is satire.

Source: CNN 10 Student English October 2020 Collection

Another Pegida cofounder described it a satire and said the movement would continue. Dina Numen reports.

Source: BBC Listening January 2015 Collection

This brilliant, rambling satires is written in a colloquiql style.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book Three.

As seen in what passed for scathing satire at the time.

Source: Vox opinion

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