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      sat·ire
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      noun: satire
      1. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
        "the crude satire seems to be directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time"
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        • a play, novel, film, or other work which uses satire.
          plural noun: satires
          "a stinging satire on American politics"
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          vulgar slang
          piss-take
        • a genre of literature characterized by the use of satire.
          "a number of articles on Elizabethan satire"
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      Satire | Definition of Satire by Merriam-Webster

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      SATIRE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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      a humorous way of criticizing people or ideas to show that they have faults or are wrong, or a piece of writing or a play that uses this style: [ C ] The play is a satire ...

      Satire - Wikipedia

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      Satire | Definition of Satire at Dictionary.com

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      Satire definition, the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. See more.

      satire | Definition & Examples | Britannica

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      Feb 7, 2019 — Satire, artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform.

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      Satire exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.

      Satire definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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