Sat"ire , and cf. Saturate.]
1.
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
2.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Syn. -- Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.
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