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- noun Plural form of
satire .
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Examples
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But however party might have cried up this writer as a poet and a satirist of the first order, Goldsmith had the sense and manliness to tell them what they called satires were but tawdry lampoons, whose turbulence aped the quality of force, whose frenzy that or fire.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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What makes this novel different from most other satires, is that isn't content with simply holding up its subject to ridicule.
MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008
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Pecuchet_ would be more truly named were they called satires and not representations.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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The poetical value of the satires is another matter.
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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The main topic of the satires is a denunciation of an age when, as he puts it,
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868
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As his satires were the more just for being delayed, so were his panegyrics; bestowed only on such persons as he had familiarly known, only for such virtues as he had long observed in them, and only at such times as others cease to praise, if not begin to calumniate them -- I mean, when out of power or out of fashion.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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Franken faced a controversy even within his own party this year after opponents discovered that the former talk-show host had written sexually-degrading "satires" of women and Asians in the past, including a piece for Playboy entitled "Porn-O-Rama".
Hot Air » Top Picks 2008
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Gadarene, had called his satires _Saturæ Menippeæ_; hence the title.]
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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Tonight, I wanted to be a snarky bastard and write another one of those "satires" in a pitiful attempt to have the last word on an issue.
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"takedowns" every week, when copyright holders complain about material such as satires and reviews that is clearly legal under the Fair Use law.
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