Word Meanings - SATIRIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SATIRIZE)

• Rally Banter
• satirize
• chaff
• taunt
• mock
• deride
• ridicule
• joke
• twit

Related words: (words related to SATIRIZE)

• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• DERIDER
  One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• CHAFFERN
  A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
• SATIRIZE
  To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.
• DERIDE
  To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton. Syn.
• CHAFFING
  The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• CHAFFY
  1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales,
• TAUNTINGLY
  In a taunting manner.
• CHAFFERER
  One who chaffers; a bargainer.
• CHAFF
  The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks
• TAUNTRESS
  A woman who taunts.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CHORALLY
  In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
• SCRIPTURALLY
  In a scriptural manner.
• DEXTRALLY
  (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
• NEUTRALLY
  In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.
• PECTORALLY
  As connected with the breast.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• IMMORALLY
  In an immoral manner; wickedly.