satirize
/ˈsatɪrʌɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different."
- "Nat Habib, the producer‐director at the Scarsdale theater, says that “Flahooley,” which satirizes big business, was in part a victim of the McCarthyism of the times."
- "It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap."
- "But Reitman, who also coscripted the film (with Sheldon Turner) from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham."
Etymology
Etymology tree English satire Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English satirize From satire + -ize.