satirize
verb (used with object)
to attack or ridicule with satire.
is satirizing
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present progressiveof satirize (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Added He: “Even when he is satirizing or skewering a character, he is doing it from a place of love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
You can do each one of them rewritten for a new niche audience, which again is satirizing the movie business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
What Mr. Carlin is doing here is satirizing American blood lust, bringing to the surface the impulse that makes professional wrestling and crime stories so popular.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2016
Watching the movie, you might well wonder what nation it is satirizing, the United States or Canada?
From New York Times ● May 6, 2011
Its most conspicuous intent is to be more outrageous in detail than what it is satirizing, and these days, that is hard to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
