Crossword-Solution: SATIRICAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Satirical | a. | Of or pertaining to satire; of the nature of satire; as, a satiric style. |
| Satirical | a. | Censorious; severe in language; sarcastic; insulting. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SATIRICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Indulging in ridicule. | 1 answer |
| CIA trials (anag) – mocking the powerful | 1 answer |
| Like sendups | 1 answer |
| Like a Jonathan Swift book | 1 answer |
| Like Wilde or Swift | 1 answer |
| Like Mark Russell's shows | 1 answer |
| Like Britain's Private Eye magazine | 1 answer |
| Like "Utopia" or "Gulliver's Travels" | 1 answer |
| Juvenalian in style | 1 answer |
| Exposing human folly to ridicule | 1 answer |
| Caustic, in a way | 1 answer |
| Adjective for "Gulliver's Travels" | 1 answer |
| Like The Onion | 2 answers |
| Like Candide | 2 answers |
| Like mad | 6 answers |
| Mordant | 26 answers |
| Ironic | 69 answers |
| CUTTING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SATIRICAL (5)
Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but _that_ did not signify.
These satirical writers parodied a remark of Linnæus, quoted by the adversaries of the monster, maintaining “that nature did not make fools,” and adjured their contemporaries not to give the lie to nature, by admitting the existence of krakens, sea-serpents, “Moby Dicks,” and other lucubrations of delirious sailors.
She said in the coolest manner, "Now you are here, I should like to consult you about my play; I am at a loss for some new incidents." Mind! there was nothing satirical in this.
Charlotte and Gertrude acquired considerable facility in addressing her, directly, as “Eugenia;” but in speaking of her to each other they rarely called her anything but “she.” “Doesn’t she think it good enough for her?” cried little Lizzie Acton, who was always asking unpractical questions that required, in strictness, no answer, and to which indeed she expected no other answer than such as she herself invariably furnished in a small, innocently-satirical laugh.
That’s why she wouldn’t get a divorce.” Dawes continued to stare in a satirical fashion at the picture over the mantelpiece.
Quotes with SATIRICAL (3)
You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tida…
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of …
We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we don’t know the face and don’t know the message. Actually I have much less fear since I confronted fears. What’s frightening to me is people whose unconscious leads them, destroys them, and yet they will never stop and look at it. That’s the minotaur in the labyrinth, which many people never come face t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1966–2017).