satirise
IPA: sˈætɝʌs
verb
- To make a satire of; to mock.
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Examples of "satirise" in Sentences
- Or will Iannucci create a new sitcom, The Thin of It, to satirise the axe-wielding new government?
- And she must feel very loved, even though she says she has low self-esteem, because otherwise how could she satirise me?
- Ultimately, though, this seems to be no more than an oversight in a sincere attempt to satirise body and face fascism in a topsy-turvy fashion.
- It's all passably jolly, but the show, with book and lyrics by Peter Sham and music by Brad Carroll, misses a trick in not doing more to satirise operatic conventions.
- Carrie Bradshaw gets a proper job, a husband and children, but predictably struggles to juggle and satirise work-life issues, in a movie that acts like this is a new phenomenon.
- In her new novel, There but for the, Ali Smith deploys the conceit to satirise contemporary culture – and to ask difficult questions about history, time, epistemology and narrative.
- This tale of a murderous dictator had its origins in a play Jarry wrote as a teenager to satirise a schoolmaster – and that is what it sounds like: tirelessly rejoicing in bums and squelches and self-suckings off.
- Truly, I can think of no more amusingly elegant way to satirise a post-imperial power, refusing to go gently into the good night of its irrelevance, than by simply placing its national football team coach against the backdrop of the so-called mother of parliaments.
- Then again, perhaps this email is the first of many missives to come to light from football's Henry Root, a shadowy figure who has decided to satirise the cut and thrust of the Most Bestest League In The World TM, and is even now preparing to unleash his next bombshell.
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