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- verb Present participle of
satirise .
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Examples
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Or his comic masterpiece, Mac Flecknoe, satirising an obscure Restoration rival: "A tun of man, in thy large bulk is writ,/but sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit" (kilderkin: an old English unit of volume equal to two firkins).
Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010
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In fact, Betjeman was at his best when satirising exactly the kind of middle-century, middle-English existence that we now use him to typify, and not just on the subject of Slough.
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Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power.
Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature? The Guardian 2010
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The Onion has got around to satirising Wikipedia, with an article entitled Wikipedia celebrates 750 years of American Independence.
Humour Maxine 2009
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Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power.
Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature? The Guardian 2010
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Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power.
Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature? The Guardian 2010
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Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power.
Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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But William Finn's music and lyrics and Rachel Sheinkin's book have little of the brio of those shows and seem unsure whether they are satirising or celebrating a peculiarly American institution.
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Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power.
Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature? The Guardian 2010
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Spoof Britflick satirising the recent spate of urban dramas.
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