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:

Fight Club is silly stuff, sensationalism that mistakes itself for satire, but it's also a brash and transporting piece of moviemaking, like Raging Bull on acid.
The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)
Behind the satire, however, is a reverence for Gilbert and Sullivan: The tempos are slower than modern audiences are used to, and the staging has been stripped of high-camp accretions.
And yuppies are too ripe for satire to be branded as evil.
But satire requires a critical stance, while The Man Show requires jokes about women drivers and farting monkeys.