satirize
[sat-uh-rahyz]
- to attack or ridicule with satire.
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Also especially British, sat·i·rise.
Origin of satirize
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Examples from the Web for satirizes
Contemporary Examples
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
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
satirize
satirise
- to deride (a person or thing) by means of satire
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Word Origin and History for satirizes
satirize
v.
c.1600, from French satiriser (see satire (n.)). Related: Satirized; satirizing.
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