satirise

See also: satirisé

English

Alternative forms

satirize

Etymology

From satire +‎ -ise.

Verb

satirise (third-person singular simple present satirises, present participle satirising, simple past and past participle satirised)

(transitive) To make a satire of; to mock.
- 1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel‎^[1], volume 2:
  Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]
- 2003, Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, “The Role of the Ingenu in the Construction of a Postcolonial Anti-War Satire: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy”, in Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez, María José López Couso, Patricia Fra López, Elena Seoane Posse, editors, Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 565:
  For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.
- 2018 June 7, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
  Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.
- 2021 April 20, Lucy Campbell and Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Morrissey hits back at The Simpsons over parody: ‘Complete ignorance’”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  The singer was satirised during the episode Panic on the Streets of Springfield, which aired in the US on Sunday night.

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French

Verb

satirise

inflection of satiriser:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

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