The faults and foibles satirised in most cases are those that richly merited the satiric lash.
As the civil service has undergone some slight modification in the last hundred years, it is encouraging to find that there is also a slight modification in the public estimate of it since Dickens satirised the Circumlocution Office.
He has satirised everything, and his art has been admirably adapted to the depth of the civilisation he probes and dissects.
He has given us true pictures of the manners of his time; and those manners he has satirised with more politeness and irony, perhaps, than broad humour.
Luther and his wife were satirised in a Latin morality represented at Gray’s Inn in 1529.
James Ralph, the unfortunate poetaster whom Pope satirised in his Dunciad, was also a native of Chiswick, and lies buried in the parish churchyard.
The philanthropic section of le monde ou l'on s'ennuie has never been satirised more tellingly, and, it must be added, more bitterly.
Ecclesiastics in high places were mercilessly satirised in his Colin Clout, e.
Edward Young, courtier, poet, rector, a general genius, satirised tea and wine as abused by the women of his day.
Drayton is introduced as Evan, a Welsh attorney, by Jonson in For the Honour of Wales, and Lodge was frequently satirised on the stage as a French doctor.
The Children of the Chapel, who under Evans, Burbadge's lessee, had satirised Shakespeare and other players in their performances at Blackfriars, were reappointed at this time to act in that same theatre under E.
There can be no doubt that the company satirised in Histriomastix is Derby's.
Venus and Adonis is satirised as a lascivious poem.
Momos, the god of pleasantry: he satirised the gods; Makaria, one of the characters in the Heraclidae of Euripides: she devoted herself to death to enable the Athenians to win a victory.
Moliere complained that "Tartuffe" was prohibited on the ground of its ridiculing religion, which was done nightly on the Italian stage; whereas he only satirised hypocrites.
Taste" satirised the enthusiasm for objects of virtu, the gross humbug of portrait painters, and the vanity of those who sat to them.
Several of his tales contain thrusts at Young Germany; that in which it is satirisedmost directly is Der Wassermensch; but the caricature is so overdone that it loses all effect.
A greater mind has satirised the human tendency to "condone the sins we are inclined to, by damning those we have no mind to," and we are content to leave it at that.
St. Augustine and other of the Fathers long after ridiculed the pagans who satirised in the theatres the very gods they worshipped in the temples.
Timagenes, who bitterly satirised both him and the empress, and proclaimed himself everywhere the enemy of the emperor.
His talents brought him a good deal of consideration in society, but the solemn and pompous manner which he affected laid him open to some ridicule, and he is said to have been satirised by Smollett (q.
He was satirised by Pope under the name of "Sporus" and "Lord Fanny.
Rosciad, in which he severely satirised the players and managers of the day.
He wrote pamphlets, lampoons, and plays, but his chief contribution to literature was The Rehearsal, a comedy, in which he satirised the heroic drama of Dryden and others.
Among his other writings may be mentioned Tylney Hall, a novel which had little success, and Up the Rhine, in which he satirised the English tourist.
These equestrian doings were satirised at the Haymarket Theatre in the following summer.
Pope satirised the introduction of horses in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII.
He had emphatically satirised the sycophancy which estimated literary works by the rank of the author: What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me!
The bookseller believed that the poet had drugged him with an emetic, he had been subsequently satirised in the Dunciad, and he had lost no opportunity of retaliating.
The poet had not the excuse of hunger, and he improved upon the model he satirised when he pretended that his friends had taken his papers, and printed them against his will.
With the utmost boldness he satirised not only the the political and social evils of the age, but also the philosophers, the gods, and the theology of the period.
He became clerk to Sir Samuel Luke, one of Cromwell's Generals, whom he has satirised as Hudibras.
His power was, however, first shown in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he satirised his critics, 1809.
He was a Voltairean, and in his Nouveaux Saints (1801) satirisedthose who returned to the old faith.
Author of Histoire des Sevarambes, 1677; imaginary travels in which he introduced free opinions and satirised Christianity.
In '31 appeared his Pobrecito Hablador (Poor Gossip), a paper in which he unmercifully satirised the public affairs and men of Spain.
Ibsen, one of a notable company of masters, stood at the head of the drama of the nineteenth century; and the society which sustained him, however he may have satirised it, is certificated abreast of its age.
No wonder this purposeless lullaby is satirisedin the orthodox libretto of Punch's Opera or the Dominion of Fancy, for Punch, having sung it, throws the child out of the window.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satirised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
