The shepherds are introduced at the opening of the piece conversing very satirically on the corruptions of the time, and complaining how the people were impoverished by over-taxation, to support the pride and vanity of the aristocracy.
They called it their buggiale, a word which signifies in Italian, a place of recreation, where they tell stories, make jests, and amuse themselves with discussing satirically the doings and characters of everybody.
Shakspeare satirically alludes to the quality of such rhymes in his Merchant of Venice, Act v.
Was this prosaic Heaven of his seriously or satirically intended?
And nothing is plainer than that his picture of a courtroom in the beyond is neither devoutly nor satirically intended.
Arbuthnot of The Daily Gazette satirically enquiring whether he wanted a job or still yearned for a season in Mayfair he consigned, in his grinning way, to perdition.
Mr. Fleay has demonstrated that Nashe, in his preface to Greene's Menaphon, alludes satirically to Thomas Kyd as the author of The Taming of a Shrew, and of the old Hamlet.
Besides satirically indicating these plays and their author, Nashe goes on to criticise the "idiot art-masters" who make choice of such plays for the actors.
It was even questioned, satirically in France, but seriously in Germany, whether or not woman was a human being.
Where men have pictured heaven or hell they have done it for the most part humorously, satirically or symbolically.
In the stories treating satirically or humorously of the future life we find the purpose in reality to be to image this life by illustration of the other.
The tendency now is to treat supernatural life humorously, satirically or symbolically, rather than with the conventional methods of the past.
Thus in Timon's "silli" the words are generally those of Homer and the tragic poets, but he applies them satiricallyto some customs and kinds of philosophy which he arraigns.
The very kinds are different; for what has a pastoral tragedy to do with a paper of verses satirically written?
I say this because Horace has written many of them satirically against his private enemies; yet these, if justly considered, are somewhat of the nature of the Greek silli, which were invectives against particular sects and persons.
So much so, that a good-for-nothing devotee of the bottle was satirically dubbed a member of that club.
Suffice it to say that he had such an end as his own realistic pen might havesatirically craved.
The Colonel said that he had once put a man on double duty for placing his head on a snowball, and warned me satirically that such luxuries were preposterous in the field.
But don't trip yourself up with that sword and fall down and break your neck," advised the Governor, satirically solicitous as one of the family.
What Voltaire saidsatirically of the character of his countrymen in general is literally true of Miserrimus Dexter.
The partner with the sour smile reminded his colleague satirically that I was a lady, and had therefore no reasons to give.
And when we were able to go ashore, and I stepped across what is now satiricallyknown as the Place de la Liberte, I compromised.
Now, when this is the case, is not a tame silence, upon being satirically libelled, as liable to be thought guilt or stupidity, as to be the result of innocence or temper?
Addressed satirically to persons who pretend to be very wise by those who do not admit their pretensions.
Satirically applied to those who are unwilling to partake of a meal in a friend's house.
Applied satirically to persons who pass their acquaintance in a proud manner.
Satirically remarked of those who pretend that they could do great things if they had some article by them, but which they know very well is not near at hand.
Satirically applied to conceited maidens who hold high opinions of themselves, that they are unequalled.
And Mr. Dennant's glance satirically wavered, rested on Shelton, and whisked back to the ground as though he had seen something that alarmed him.
The words, just a littlesatirically spoken: "What is, my dear young man?
He is satiricallycalled 'Helicon,' as he is taken down from his height in 'Hamlet.
In the same scene, the connection between Hamlet and Ophelia also is satirically pulled to pieces.
One of the ancients has observed truly, butsatirically enough, that, "Mankind is the measure of every thing.
They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satiricallywhat he had to be conceited about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satirically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
