satirical

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.

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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

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satirical

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

Example sentences

Few will agree with him, for though he abounds in excellent satirical devices

he is addicted to repeating them.

At night, he performed satirical cabaret theatre in smoke-filled cafés.

He used his satirical pen to promote issues of conservation and to bring

national attention to environmental concerns.

It's a family attic of oddball art, historical installations, satirical

drawings and cartoons.

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"The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."

-Renata Adler