satirize
verb (used with object), sat·i·rized, sat·i·riz·ing.
Origin of satirize
Related Words for satirizes
lampoon, spoof, mock, parody, caricature, jeer, ride, needle, josh, haze, cartoon, burlesque, mimic, deride, roast, humiliate, rib, banter, pan, kidExamples from the Web for satirizes
Contemporary Examples of satirizes
It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.
A fun read that satirizes the blue notes of the high arts as well as cashes in on the nostalgia of the Belle Époque.
Boogie Woogie satirizes the New York and London art scenes with an all-star cast and wicked humor.
Historical Examples of satirizes
Each one satirizes follies which are not to his taste, or sins to which he is not tempted.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
Shakespeare often satirizes the ignorant use of learned terms at his time.
Shakespeare's FamilyMrs. C. C. Stopes
He satirizes human life, but he does not satirize it to degrade it.
He satirizes only the selfish, and the hard-hearted, and the cruel.
Therefore, while he satirizes, he treats them with complacence.
Renaissance in Italy: Italian LiteratureJohn Addington Symonds