Crossword-Solution: SATIRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Satire | a. | A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. |
| Satire | a. | Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SATIRE | anagram | AIRSET, ARISTE, ARITES, ARTIES, RISEAT, SERAIT, STRIAE, TERAIS, TRIESA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SATIRE (5)
The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favor and sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation, who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics.
She could not sit still; she wanted to go and hear the worst at once; she wondered even that Chauvelin had not come yet, to vent his wrath and satire upon her.
Isaac, like the enriched traveller of Juvenal’s tenth satire, had ever the fear of robbery before his eyes, conscious that he would be alike accounted fair game by the marauding Norman noble, and by the Saxon outlaw.
The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
Hence, where matters of domestic experience, and the natural touches which make people real, can be introduced without anachronisms too striking, she is occasionally felicitous; and upon the whole we feel justified in saying that the book will bear looking into for the sake of those portions which have nothing whatever to do with the story.’ “Well, I suppose it is intended for satire; but don’t think anything more of it now, my dear.
Quotes with SATIRE (3)
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
When... did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 301 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).