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.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The competitor was obliged to send in three tragedies called a trilogy, together with what was called a satyric play.
From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton
Moreover, it was not till late that the short plot was discarded for one of greater compass, and the grotesque diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy.
From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)
Now they all took shape satyric, like hideous heads thrust out of the dark to loll their tongues at him.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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