satire

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I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.

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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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for satire.

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Example sentences

I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.

It's almost a satire of "hip" startup culture.

I'm kind of surprised that his board hasn't cut him loose yet. This Lulzsec joke is in poor taste, but right on the money as a piece of satire.

April first isn't a generalized satire day, it's about pranks.

When I saw the "Secure beneath the watchful eyes" poster [1] I couldn't believe it wasn't satire.

Sometimes, I feel like we're characters in a book of satire, mocking what a world would look like if it acted like ours.

The funny thing about this list is that a few of the items, while intended as satire, are actually spot-on.

In that case, perhaps Mr. Sweat's satire was meant to try to influence the partisans to, at least somewhat, understand the other side.

I liked the DKs for their music and lyrics, and the cover went right along with the band's brand of socio-political satire.

There's a difference between satire and making false claims about a product with the intention of tarnishing it and the company that produces it.

It's somewhat of an indictment of our industry that I genuinely can't tell whether this is clever, semi-ironic marketing for a real product or flat-out satire.