satire
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Sense: The exposing of vice or folly, especially by wit
Synonyms:
mockery, irony, ridicule, caricature, parody, black humor, causticity, chaffing, cynicism, dry wit, humor Collocations, innuendo, invective, persiflage, raillery, sarcasm, satiric wit, spoofery, spoofing, wit Collocations
Sense: A work containing satire, sense 1
Synonyms:
burlesque, parody, lampoon, caricature, comedy Collocations, epigram, hatchet job, light verse, malicious parody, mock-heroic poetry, satirical poetry, slapstick, slapstick humor, spoof Collocations, takeoff, travesty, wicked imitation