1. Adjective
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
2. Adjective
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
3. Noun
witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" - Jonathan Swift
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
4. Noun
a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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