0 a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style:
1 a humorous way of criticizing people or ideas to show that they have faults or are wrong, or a piece of writing or a play that uses this style:
As the old justification runs, satire offends less when directed at a type instead of an individual.
He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.
Would we not expect to find at least some bawdy allusions in male jokes and social satires?
This develops as negotiations between historical sentimentality and radical memorialization, and between pantomimic burlesque and morally driven satire.
This type of humour, satire, can be difficult to translate outside its immediate context.
Nor were the explorers alone the objects of the skit's satire.
It was also carried out through such media as satire and theatrical performance, in both of which endeavors we can find pandits once again active.
These changes have the same effect - downplaying satire and emphasising the romantic quest - and perhaps even the same cause.
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