[U,C] a way of criticizing a person, an idea or an institution in which you use humour to show their faults or weaknesses; a piece of writing that uses this type of criticism:
political / social satire * a work full of savage / biting satire * The novel is a stinging satire on American politics.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for satire is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is satire a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, satire is tagged as noun.
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