Synonyms for satire
ˈsæt aɪərsatire

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1. satire

   Banter is the touching upon some fault, weakness, or fancied secret of another in a way half to pique and half to please; badinage is delicate, refined banter. Raillery has more sharpness, but is usually good-humored and well meant. Irony, the saying one thing that the reverse may be understood, may be either mild or bitter. All the other words have a hostile intent. Ridicule makes a person or thing the subject of contemptuous merriment; derision seeks to make the object derided seem utterly despicable — to laugh it to scorn. Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech. A satire is a formal composition; a sarcasm may be an impromptu sentence. The satire shows up follies to keep people from them; the sarcasm hits them because they are foolish, without inquiring whether it will do good or harm; the satire is plainly uttered; the sarcasm is covert.

   Synonyms:
   badinage, banter, chaff, derision, irony, jeering, mockery, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm

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1. satire

   Synonyms:
   invective, sarcasm, burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, irony, ridicule

   Antonyms:
   eulogy, panegyric, laudation

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1. sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remarknoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   irony, sarcasm, caustic remark

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1. satirenoun

   Synonyms:
   ridicule, sarcasm, invective, irony, phillipic, diatribe, fling, squib, lampoon, pasquinade, cutting remark

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1. satirenoun

   Synonyms:
   irony, sarcasm, ridicule, lampoon, pasquinade

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1. List of paraphrases for "satire":

   irony, spelling, mockery, sarcasm

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1. Baron Cohen:

   At no time did I endorse training toddlers in handling guns. Nor was the idea even presented to me directly. If it had been, I would have rejected it, i love good satire, but good satire must reveal some basis in truth. This was fraud, a sick fraud at that, and its intention was to deceive the American people for political purposes.

2. Frank Moore Colby:

   By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

3. Indira Jaising:

   When a society can not tolerate satire, it's a society that has lost its constitutional values.

4. The Supreme Court president:

   The satire will not affect the Christian faith of Brazilians.

5. Anthony Trollope:

   The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.