satirize

American  

[sat-uh-rahyz] / ˈsæt əˌraɪz /

especially British, satirise

verb (used with object)

satirized, satirizing

1. to attack or ridicule with satire.

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satirize British  

/ ˈsætəˌraɪz /

verb

1. to deride (a person or thing) by means of satire

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Other Word Forms

• nonsatirizing adjective
• satirizable adjective
• satirization noun
• satirizer noun
• unsatirizable adjective
• unsatirized adjective

Etymology

Origin of satirize

First recorded in 1595–1605; satire + -ize

Example Sentences

This time, we’re seeing the actor’s answer to “The Studio,” only instead of satirizing the industry’s artistically cheapening franchise obsession, it warns of the full extinction of originality by way of ChatGPT.

From Salon

A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon

Mr. Hanif’s problem may be that his country gives him too much to satirize.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the days since he announced it—anonymously—Kauffman has been accused of having a “peasant feudal lord mindset” and satirizing the city’s posture toward the tech industry and its leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• lampoon
• mock
• parody
• spoof