Sentence example with the word 'satiric'

satiric

Definition adj. exposing human folly to ridicule

Last update: June 14, 2015


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And it may be fairly claimed for him that in El Tejado de Vidrio and El Tanto por Ciento he displays a very exceptional combination of satiric intention with romantic inspiration.   [Please select]

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She might smile at it in satiric wonder in the retrospect, but at least it was ineradicable in her memory.   [Please select]

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It was published in Havana in 1816, when the author, De Lizardi, _El Pensador Mexicano_, was there to escape the consequences of his satiric jibes.   [Please select]

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7, 1710), has given one of those quietly satiric pictures of many a well-known man of the day, some Petiver or Hans Sloane.   [Please select]

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For to much of his poetry we must apply his own satiric verses on another's crudities: Infinite work.   [Please select]

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The philosopher who worked eight years to extract sunshine from cucumbers is typical of Swift's satiric treatment of all scientific problems.   [Please select]

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Both prose and poetry were too frequently satiric, and satire does not tend to produce a high type of literature.   [Please select]

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Her long green eyes met his keen satiric ones with melting languor.   [Please select]

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"She might do worse; but come to breakfast and do honor to my handiwork," said Sophie, thinking of her worn-out millionnaire, and rather nettled by the satiric smile on Randal's lips.   [Please select]

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I have a copy of _Periquillo Sarniento_, the "Gil Blas" of Mexico, but it is difficult reading for a foreigner, full of satiric allusions to political events of the period and to purely local conditions.   [Please select]

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