Example sentences for: satiric

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

  • 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.

  • The Mexican concept of death is exemplified in the satiric antics of the calavera and this perspective is also found in the art, literature, and performance arts of Chicanos.

  • Critics often praise Self's cerebral rigor, his sharp satiric grip on our foibles--and Great Apes does occasionally gesture in this direction.

  • 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?


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