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Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame.

From Time Magazine Archive

Satiric broadsides and lyric hotfoots from the dauntless Kinks, who have been dishing out rock-'n'-roll mockery for over a decade and show no sign of letting up or simmering down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kertesz's Paris was like the woman in his picture Satiric Dancer: pert, ironic and caught at a fresh tilt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Puritanical sanctity, in collision with the ordinary interests of life, and with its militant propensities, offered too striking a field for the Satiric Muse, in any case, to have passed in total neglect.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

Satiric comedy, or comedy of manners, is the art of making ludicrous in dramatic form some phase of life. 

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by Street, G. S. (George Slythe)