Search Result for "satirize":
Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1. ridicule with satire;
- Example: "The writer satirized the politician's proposal"
[syn: satirize, satirise, lampoon]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Satirize \Sat"ir*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Satirized; p. pr. & vb. n. Satirizing.] [Cf. F. satiriser.] To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. [1913 Webster] It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
