witty language used to convey insults or scorn There’s plenty of humor on Russian television, though not much political satire; Mr. Putin put a stop to that long ago. — New York Times (Feb 13, 2012) [..]

late 14c., "work intended to ridicule vice or folly," from Middle French satire (14c.) and directly from Latin satira "satire, poetic medley," earlier satura, in lanx satura " [..]

1905, from satire (n.). Related: Satired; satiring.

A genre of visual art that uses humor, irony, ridicule, or caricature to expose or criticize someone or something.

work of art that makes fun of ideas and social convention through use of irony, sarcasm, and ridicule.

An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. Satire became an [..]

An artistic form where human actions and errors are mocked.

sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Sat [..]

Satire is a form of humour where the writer or speaker tries to make the reader or listener have a negative opinion about someone, by laughing at them, making them seem ridiculous or foolish etc. If s [..]

A form of ridicule, often in the guise of comedy. Humorous criticism. The poet, taking on the role of social commentator, may expose our shortcomings; help us to laugh at or address them, or to view them with more seriousness.

n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.

Satire, as it's traditionally understood, is the ridicule of some vice or imperfection — an attack on someone or something by making it look ridiculous or worthy of scorn. Although sati [..]

A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. Swift's Gulliver's Travels

a literary work—whether fiction, poetry, or drama—that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure. Examples include Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels and Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strang [..]

Scorn or ridicule, used humorously in writing to show follies or vices.

Satire is a work that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit for improving institutions and humanity. In its positive direction, it attempts to inspire an improvement in society rather than jus [..]

A literary work which belittles or savagely attacks its subject. A distinction is sometimes made between direct and indirect satire.

A literary form in which a writer pokes fun at those aspects of his society, especially those people and those social institutions that the author thinks are corrupt and in need of change.

("medley") - use of ridicule, irony, sarcasm in writing or speech for the purpose of exposing some moral or social vice. 58. Simile

The use of one or more of exaggeration, humour, parody, irony, sarcasm or ridicule to expose, denounce and deride folly or vice in human nature and institutions. The emphatic feature of these language [..]

 The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty; people, institutions, ideas, and things are all fair game for satirists. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it. See also i [..]

 – a form of literature which uses exaggerated, flat characters to represent some aspect of a person or society for the purpose of making a critical comment through ridicule.

A work that blends criticism with humor and wit as well as didactic intentions. Simile

a mocking, ridiculing commentary on an economic, political, religious or social institution, ideology or belief, person (or group), policy, or human vice. Examples: The Great Dictator (1940), Dr. Stra [..]

A composition in verse or prose that uses humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to point out vice or folly in order to expose, discourage, and change morally offensive attitudes or behaviors. It has been [..]

The use of sarcasm, irony, and wit to expose to ridicule the weaknesses or foibles of a person, group, or institution, often used to call public attention to a moral lapse or abuse of public trust, to [..]

(n) witty language used to convey insults or scorn

A straightforward profession of one's most deeply held beliefs, with added exclamation points.

satura

a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.; humor or a literary work that shows the weaknesses or flawed qualities of a person, government, society, etc.

n. "(pl.) satyrs, gods of the woodlands," s.v. satyr OED. KEY: satire@n

n 1 satiry 1

  A literary composition that exposes the failings of individuals or societies to ridicule. Satire is a manner of writing that uses irony, sarcasm, exaggeration, ridicule, or humor to expose or denoun [..]

a literary work which illustrates and/or criticises the social follies and moral vices of a culture, originating in Greek and Roman poems, most influentially those of the Romans Horace, Juvenal, and P [..]

The use of humor and exaggeration to expose and criticize behaviors of human beings.

The use of sharp wit, irony, or sarcasm to expose, discredit, or ridicule human vice or folly.

Satire is a genre that sets out to improve bad behavior through sarcasm and irony. A satirist humorously depicts a current state of affairs, and hopes that by doing so, he might improve it. It's [..]

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, c [..]

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, c [..]