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 lines which have relation to Mr. More are so elegantly satyric, that it probably will not displease our readers to find them inserted here.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
Our Hans Andersen is too weak in the wrist, has not arm strong enough "to crack the satyric thong."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
Critias, the well-known reactionary politician, the chief of the Thirty Tyrants, is placed amongst the atheists on the strength of a passage in a satyric drama, Sisyphus.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Ingeborg Andersen
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