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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
satirize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Glick's book satirizes small-town politics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A friend has told me that you've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife.
▪ Melville uses this chapter to satirize the Quakers.
▪ So cohesive and distinctive was the culture of Los Alamos that it could be satirized effectively.
▪ These groups have often been satirized and ridiculed.
▪ When you think about it, none of our best-selling satirical novelists have actually satirized anything for years.
▪ Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Satirize

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.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
satirize

c.1600, from French satiriser (see satire (n.)). Related: Satirized; satirizing.

Wiktionary
satirize

alt. To make a satire of; to mock. vb. To make a satire of; to mock.

WordNet
satirize

v. ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" [syn: satirise, lampoon]

Usage examples of "satirize".

Creative misfits of all kinds slipped into the eighty approved artistic modes, including several that were sanctioned to satirize the hidebound and shake up the stodgy.

The middle part of the prelude, in which the opening march tune is heard in short, quick notes (in diminution, as the theoreticians say) maybe looked upon as caricaturing the mastersingers, not in their fair estate, but as they are satirized in the comedy in the person of Beckmesser.

He therefore held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and confidential with him, so that the two quickly concocted a little plan for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all dreaming of distrusting their sincerity.

Look, what would our cartoonists do if they wanted to satirize the Chinese, if we were in a period of extreme tension with the Chinese and the editorial cartoonists wanted to stir up a little patriotism?

I said that the books it satirized, The Sensuous Woman and The Sensuous Man, were nauseating.

In 1971, I was persuaded to write a book entitled The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, in which I gently satirized sexual how-to books such as The Sensuous Woman.

The boy's face was noncommittal and I thought they might be playing games with me, satirizing the outsider's conviction that smalltown life is a surrender to just such tiny deaths, worm-watching and Masonic handshakes.

While I was taking the money from the billfold, she was satirizing sexual love again, pretending that the music was filling her with lust.

Satire Oscar, they're just satirizing the whole genre don't you think?

Ross's sweet, funny film merely gently satirizes the conservative values of 1950s situation comedies without ever contrasting them with the real times in which such shows were produced.

But many others are flat and simple--not flesh-and-blood people so much as representatives of the various social classes and occupations that Lewis wants to satirize.