Noun:

व्यंग-प्रधान रचना, उपसाह, प्रहसन, व्यंग,

satires's Usage Examples:

215 the emperor Caracalla visited the city; and, in order to repay some insulting satires that the inhabitants had made upon him, he commanded his troops to put to death all youths capable of bearing arms. This brutal order seems to have been carried out even beyond the letter, for a general massacre was the result.

Much of the wisdom of Maecenas probably lives in the Satires and Epistles of Horace.

In the "Journey to Brundusium," (Horace, Satires, i.

This book is chiefly remarkable for its unsparing satires on the monastic orders and the secular clergy.

Oldham wrote other satires, notably one "addressed to a friend about to leave the university," which contains a well-known description of the state of slavery of the private chaplain, and another "dissuading from poetry," describing the ingratitude shown to Edmund Spenser, whose ghost is the speaker, to Samuel Butler and to Abraham Cowley.

He was original in the dramatic setting provided for his satires.

Garnet's Ghost was published as a broadside in 1679, but the other Satires on the Jesuits, although written at the same time, were not printed until 1681.

Parliament, which he had kept at arm's length, was hostile; he was hated by the nobility, and his general unpopularity is reflected in Skelton's satires and in Hall's Chronicle.

In itself a product of the medieval conception of the fool who figured so largely in the Shrovetide and other pageants, it differs entirely from the general allegorical satires of the preceding centuries.

but his eclogues were, like his Italian models, also satires on social evils.

Synonyms:

sarcastic, irony, humour, caustic remark, sarcasm, wittiness, wit, unsarcastic, witticism, humor,

Antonyms:

stupidity, ill humor, good humor, sarcastic, unsarcastic,