satyric

American  

[say-teer-ik] / seɪˈtɪər ɪk /

adjective

1. relating to or resembling a satyr, especially with regard to sexual appetite or preoccupation with sex; lascivious; lecherous.

2. 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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Example Sentences

After this period it became customary to exhibit dramas in TETRALOGIES, or sets of four; namely, a tragic trilogy, or series of three tragedies, followed by a Satyric play.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

He is the Satyric genius we spoke of anon: he cracks his jokes still, for satire must live; but he is combed, washed, neatly clothed, and perfectly presentable.

From John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character by Thackeray, William Makepeace

We have only to remember the old Satyric tradition and to look at them in the light of their historical development.

From Alcestis by Murray, Gilbert

The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the Satyric order, and had greater affinities with dancing.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

But apparently it told how Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the Three Fates drunk and cajoling them.

From Alcestis by Murray, Gilbert