SATIRE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

2.
n.

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.