satirize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- nonsatirizing adjective
- satirizable adjective
- satirization noun
- satirizer noun
- unsatirizable adjective
- unsatirized adjective
Etymology
Origin of satirize
Example Sentences
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Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon
Mr. Hanif’s problem may be that his country gives him too much to satirize.
In the days since he announced it—anonymously—Kauffman has been accused of having a “peasant feudal lord mindset” and satirizing the city’s posture toward the tech industry and its leaders.
The policing techniques satirized in the film may be futuristic, but its structure is fusty.
Nine years ago, the documentarian John Wilson came to Sundance to shoot a six-minute short called “Escape From Park City,” satirizing a film festival he didn’t think would ever let him in.
From Los Angeles Times
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