satyr
noun
one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
satyrical
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a word derived from
satyr.
Example Sentences
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We find in the issue for March 19th, 1711, a correspondent desires Addison to be “very satyrical upon the little muff” that was then fashionable amongst men.
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
The Nature of Comic Poetry being entirely satyrical, it busies itself more in exposing what we call Caprice and Humour, than Vices cognizable to the Laws.
From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Hugh G. Dick
This eminent satyrical poet, was the son of the reverend Mr. John Oldham, a nonconformist minister, and grandson to Mr. John Oldham, rector of Nun-Eaton, near Tedbury in Gloucestershire.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
We never saw a satyrical journal in our lives, and we thought that kind of writing was the most obnoxious to give offence.
These periodical pieces are long since buried in neglect, and perhaps would have even sunk into oblivion, had not Mr. Pope, by his satyrical writings, given them a kind of disgraceful immortality.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
