Words similar to satire

Example sentences for: satire

How can you use “satire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But despite being a satire, Wag the Dog embodies an analysis of Washington that is fairly typical of the better class of political movie.
If so, the satire has gone over viewers' heads.
The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.
an outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload."
But satire requires a critical stance, while The Man Show requires jokes about women drivers and farting monkeys.