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Satirized

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.

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satirized

vb. (en-past of: satirize)

Usage examples of "satirized".

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.