1. satire - Noun
2. satire - Adjective
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Source: Webster's dictionarySatire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald
I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. Irish Proverb
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Finnish Proverb