satyric
Americanadjective
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relating to or resembling a satyr, especially with regard to sexual appetite or preoccupation with sex; lascivious; lecherous.
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Greek Antiquity. relating to, being, or imitating a genre of ancient Greek burlesque play characterized by obscene or bawdy humor and featuring satyrs as members of the chorus.
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He has trod these boards as the satyric Bluebeard, as Ebenezer Scrooge, as a neurotic shrink in Reverse Psychology, even as Rufus Foufas, a bamboozled patron of the arts in Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite his gift for sharp dialogue, wild humor and satyric satire he leaves the reader with an exasperating feeling of emptiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the satyric comedies which he wrote himself in his native language, show of how merry and jovial a temperament he was in this way.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Taken as a whole, and partly through being unencumbered with the satyric machinery of the Queen's Arcadia, Hymen's Triumph is a distinctly lighter and more pleasing composition.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
The festival culminated in the production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the great theatre of Dionysus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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