satirical

• Their numbers may be gauged by their present classification into “pastoral, satirical, theological, metaphysical and humorous,” but only two of them were in entire sympathy with the Puritan spirit, or could be read without serious shock to belief and scruples. —  Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
• Although The Onion is known as a satirical publication, Harris said having a sense of humor is more important. —  Iowa State Daily
• Two elements are still in conflict, the photographic and the satirical; and the satirical is the only relief from the photographic. —  Figures of Several Centuries
• He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up near the beginning some singular epithet, which, serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to let fall a row. —  At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
• He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced, now and then, to let fall a row For the higher kinds of poetry he has no sense, and his talk on that subject is delightfully and gorgeously absurd. —  On the Choice of Books

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