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satirize

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To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. Lenny Bruce

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. Glenn Greenwald

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.' Anna Chlumsky

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. Berkeley Breathed

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Jonathan Swift

She's a gift for satirists. Of course it's easy, because dull artists, especially in pop music, are very difficult to satirize. It's all there on a plate wasn't it? Kate Bush

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