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And yet wintery, sarcastic, Juvenalian satire is not usually one of the tools in their toolbox.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018

We have exchanged the company of Plato, Xenophon, or �schines for that of a Juvenalian Gr�culus, a delicate �sthetic voluptuary.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

The close adherence also which the majority of them manifest to the broadly marked types of "Horatian" and "Juvenalian" satire, both in matter and manner, is not a little remarkable.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

There is as marked a difference between the Drydenic and the Swiftian types of satire, between that of Cleiveland and that of Pope, as between the diverse schools known as the "Horatian" and the "Juvenalian".

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

The Medal reverts to the type of the classic satire of the Juvenalian order.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant