Words similar to satire

Example sentences for: satire

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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.
The action revolves around six characters (two couples and two singles) who betray and manipulate each other in various combinations in a biting, misanthropic sexual satire.
It is an example of a publication where Chicanos could express cultural and political satire.
When these fellows were caught on tape (a delightfully Dick Clarkish phrase) on an appallingly racist parade float, they pleaded satire.
The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)