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Definition of Satire
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Satire
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. Related Definitions:
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Satire Quotations
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Voltaire Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald |
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Satire Translations
satire in German is Satire, Spottschrift satire in Latin is satura satire in Swedish is satir |
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