satires

noun

plural of satire
as in parodies
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general a satire about the music industry in which a handsome but untalented youth is turned into a pop star

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Recent Examples of satires Yet, the brothers aren’t looking to get overly political, even if their films are often satires. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026 Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026 Did celebrated Italian auteur Nanni Moretti, known at home and abroad for his leftist political satires and introspective human comedies, just make his first straight-up soap opera? — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 There are satires of AD home tours—and a host of new competitors, from new media to independent creators. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 27 July 2026 By 1775, at age 47, as the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, her anonymous satires and plays were already shaping public opinion in support of independence. — Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026 His ten other, wildly disparate books include two satires of media and marketing and an elegiac zombie novel set in Manhattan. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 Known for creating wicked political satires like Veep and The Thick of It, Iannucci is currently competing on Taskmaster. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 May 2026 Filmmakers have used the Civil War as a setting for many decades now, inspiring stories of epic military battles, romantic melodramas, and even satires, from sweeping Best Picture winners like Gone With the Wind (1939) to revisionist Westerns like Django Unchained (2012). — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for satires
  1. parodies
  2. spoofs
  3. comedies
  4. lampoons
Noun
  • The five stars teased the project with parodies of their characters in a promo video.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The name of the collection parodies the seriousness of the museum, even as the collection itself is the kind of thing that has traditionally gotten scant attention within actual institutions.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of parodies
Noun
  • The film draws on 1980s supernatural comedies, including Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family, alongside classic monster movies and horror spoofs.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Blanchett cofounded the nonprofit Human Consent Foundation to help people register how AI models can — or cannot — scrape their likenesses in an effort to combat such spoofs.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of spoofs
Noun
  • The organization said this figure could be even higher, as many comedies shoot on soundstages, which are not included in this report.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Because, as the thinking went, comedies were supposed to be about unlikely heroes who overcome long odds and learn valuable life lessons along the way.
    — Blake J. Harris, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of comedies
Noun
  • From Sinners to Scream to Smile and beyond, to uproarious lampoons of non-genre titles like Michael and Wicked, here are the victims of the latest Scary Movie.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • Written in 2019, the book also feels prescient about the fast fashion landscape that Riley’s film lampoons.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Definition of lampoons

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“Satires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satires. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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