Meaning of satirise | Babel Free

Definitions

To make a satire of; to mock.

transitive

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Examples

“Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]”

“For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.”

“Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.”

“The singer was satirised during the episode Panic on the Streets of Springfield, which aired in the US on Sunday night.”

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