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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
satirise .
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Examples
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Still, the firm seeks a piece of the very market that satirises it – and at some level, one has to doff the hat.
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It satirises the smug, modernist home-owners often seen in the pages of US interiors magazine Dwell.
Why do people hate hipsters? Alex Rayner 2010
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Having been one himself in the energy industry, as well as a journalist and publishing executive, Neil Fleming knows of what he writes in The Consultant, a political comedy that satirises corporate life and exposes bureaucratic waste at a time when huge cuts are being made.
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Still, the firm seeks a piece of the very market that satirises it – and at some level, one has to doff the hat.
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(Not as extreme as Ashes of Time or Fallen Angels -- the latter which Fok Yiu-Leung satirises so wonderfully in Her Name is Cat).
kateelliott: 2008 Film Reviews: Tony Leung Smiles! kateelliott 2009
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However, it's spot on for the mini white cube which satirises the whole caboodle, framing a pair of knickers alongside critiques of a show called FIB which is "unsettling, challenging" and has "gut-wrenching authenticity".
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It is entirely in keeping with original Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 story, which satirises both Soviet social engineering and scientific attitudes by showing how a stray dog is turned into a man.
The great expressionist experiment: theatre seizes the essence of life Michael Billington 2010
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Jane Austen ` s Northanger Abbey is a good way into Gothicism in that it satirises it form the point of view of a fan.
Come Into My Parlour .... Newmania 2007
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In 1777 Frances Brooke published her third novel The Excursion, a work which brilliantly satirises the self-serving and heartless world of fashionable society.
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One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirises and turns everything to ridicule.
Archive 2008-07-27 papabear 2008
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