satiric

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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satirical or satiric (səˈtɪrɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, or containing satire
2.	given to the use of satire

satiric or satiric

—*adj*

sa'tirically or satiric

—*adv*

sa'tiricalness or satiric

—n

satirical or satiric (səˈtɪrɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, or containing satire
2.	given to the use of satire

satiric or satiric

—*adj*

sa'tirically or satiric

—*adv*

sa'tiricalness or satiric

—n

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satirical

1520s, from L.L. satiricus, from L. satira "satire, poetic medley" (see satire).

Example sentences

My favorite bit of satiric advice has the kind of yelper line we've all heard.

Dozens of popular comics in the past half century have worked in the same satiric vein.

Though possessing potent satiric gifts, he but rarely has recourse to them.

On weekends he makes metal sculptures on satiric themes.

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"The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic."

-Robert Graves