How to Use satiric in a Sentence

satiric

adjective
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  • So does Jivoff, who takes us from satiric spoof to camp.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2018
  • For Moore, Bond was Simon Templar on a grander scale and more satiric.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • This week: Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days, set to any familiar tune.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • Sturges’s deft satiric touch has proved matchless through the decades (even when the Coen brothers try their best).
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • With a satiric song and goofy video games, Russians openly joked about their team and its coach ahead of the tournament.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • Lefty critics who thought the show was on their side were notably aghast at seeing their precious AOC in the satiric crosshairs.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • There was no satiric intention; that’s gone by the wayside.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The seasoned actress harnessed her comedic and satiric chops for the campaign to execute the PSA.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The music is jubilant but the lyrics are satiric poison.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • While Blanchett and Bullock are predictably solid in their roles, Hathaway steals the film with a wickedly on-point satiric turn as a spoiled star.
    — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 7 June 2018
  • If the truth of the Access Hollywood tape couldn’t bring him down, why would Hollywood’s satiric fictions be able to?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • And on Showtime, Colbert will have more freedom to unleash his satiric fury.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 July 2017
  • But this satiric jest is the film’s only slant (a preening quirk eventually dropped).
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Oct. 2022
  • There is satiric bite to Eric Roth’s screenplay, based on Winston Groom’s novel.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • The billionaire and the gardeners would seem to be moral opposites, but Catton writes with a satiric edge that leaves no survivors.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Yet The Boys is one of the most amusing shows going, a satiric machine-gun attack on a gallery of cultural icons that have richly earned their drubbing.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Despite its bawdy-satiric tone—and an outrageous scene in which Tommy has a conversation with his love appendage—the show is firmly on the lovers' side.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The satiric rock duo will donate proceeds from the event to Rock the Vote, the nonpartisan non-profit dedicated to building the ranks of young voters in United States.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Even Claudius—despite the ending of Seneca’s satiric fantasy—had his own prominent temple in Rome.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Ultimately a satiric deus ex machina finale saves the day.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The foot parade, in which participants pull tiny, satiric floats, has been a popular part of the downtown Carnival scene since it was founded in 2008.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • That image announced both McCall’s major theme—the absurdity of city life—and the tenets of his style, which relies on gently satiric detail.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • While the book was satiric, its intent was entirely serious.
    — Al Franken, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The effect isn’t satiric, campy, funny, ironic or even cynical.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Every day in the morning paper, the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News found so much fertile satiric terrain.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • And at a time when so many people now get their news — real and satiric alike — via social media, a polished nightly version of this risks feeling like a relic of a bygone era.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The creative team has produced a series that, based on the first seven episodes, begins with almost satiric tones of dark humor and evolves into something darker and more intense.
    — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But much of it does, especially its satiric sendups of consumerism and society manners.
    — Devoney Looser, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • As a McDormand vehicle, the film has a satiric western swagger, updated by the casting of a woman of a certain age in the vigilante role.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Whatever criticism the genial Shammas had until then withheld is here let loose, with a stroke of satiric brilliance, in the figure of the solipsistic Bar-On.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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