How to Use satiric in a Sentence

satiric

adjective
  • When the book was published, both those who swooned over it and those who censured it failed to catch its satiric edge.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Sturges’s deft satiric touch has proved matchless through the decades (even when the Coen brothers try their best).
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • But this satiric jest is the film’s only slant (a preening quirk eventually dropped).
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Oct. 2022
  • With a satiric song and goofy video games, Russians openly joked about their team and its coach ahead of the tournament.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • The songs, and many of the performances, signal that the series is meant to be a satiric adventure.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The musical numbers the band executed, in more ways than one, were satiric gems.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2025
  • For Moore, Bond was Simon Templar on a grander scale and more satiric.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • And on Showtime, Colbert will have more freedom to unleash his satiric fury.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 July 2017
  • The effect isn’t satiric, campy, funny, ironic or even cynical.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • But much of it does, especially its satiric sendups of consumerism and society manners.
    — Devoney Looser, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The show is wonderfully satiric.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of that film’s wicked irony and satiric edge, though, this one offers sincerity and honest sentiment.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Lefty critics who thought the show was on their side were notably aghast at seeing their precious AOC in the satiric crosshairs.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The billionaire and the gardeners would seem to be moral opposites, but Catton writes with a satiric edge that leaves no survivors.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Think The White Lotus without the comforting satiric streak.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • The show isn't satiric so much as amused by the absurd lengths to which the Kaylas of our society will go in pursuit of self-definition.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • There is satiric bite to Eric Roth’s screenplay, based on Winston Groom’s novel.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • My satiric letter advised parents to teach their children to settle disputes with hockey sticks, like their favorite hockey players.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • But the tone is often more satiric than somber, Park highlighting Man-su’s foibles and insecurities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • If the truth of the Access Hollywood tape couldn’t bring him down, why would Hollywood’s satiric fictions be able to?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • While Blanchett and Bullock are predictably solid in their roles, Hathaway steals the film with a wickedly on-point satiric turn as a spoiled star.
    — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 7 June 2018
  • And at a time when so many people now get their news — real and satiric alike — via social media, a polished nightly version of this risks feeling like a relic of a bygone era.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Despite its bawdy-satiric tone—and an outrageous scene in which Tommy has a conversation with his love appendage—the show is firmly on the lovers' side.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This offbeat show has a sharp satiric surface that exposes the casual cruelty and hypocrisy of family life and the torturous mind games of high school.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • And then there are the satiric quips, the candid carnality, and the love-it-or-leave-it depiction of life in Los Angeles.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Singer, songwriter, and producer Melanie Martinez makes sleek, dark pop with a satiric edge and real emotional bite.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The creative team has produced a series that, based on the first seven episodes, begins with almost satiric tones of dark humor and evolves into something darker and more intense.
    — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Yet The Boys is one of the most amusing shows going, a satiric machine-gun attack on a gallery of cultural icons that have richly earned their drubbing.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The satiric version of Casey was meant to be played by Hart, but the role eventually went to Carmen Electra.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
  • For the first time, Anthropic spent millions of dollars on several satiric Super Bowl spots.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026

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