Example sentences for: satiric

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

  • He had the kind of neurotic, sardonic, satiric, manic, and generally -ic personality that I imagine was not so common 60 years ago (for who else was like him in American letters?

  • After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.

  • Highly touted are Steven Spielberg's World War II drama Saving Private Ryan (starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon) and Peter Weir's satiric The Truman Show , about a man (Jim Carrey) whose entire life is televised.

  • In recent months, in contexts where I have grown accustomed to expect a resigned or satiric blah blah blah , I have been hearing the phrase yadda yadda yadda instead, as in: "First they tell me one thing, then they tell me another thing, yadda yadda

  • Why must people be ironical instead of ironic , or satirical instead of satiric ? The - ate suffix, originally a harmless suffix to denote causative verbs such as substantiate from substance, is particularly pernicious.


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