satirical
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satirical (comparative more satirical, superlative most satirical)
- Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
- Synonym: satiric
- Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
- 2000 October 15, John E. Joseph, Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language[1], →ISBN, page 155:
- Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language […]
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of or pertaining to satire
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