satirize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to expose or ridicule the faults of a person, institution, or idea through satire

   The novel satirizes a political class obsessed with ceremony and status.

Formed from satire + -ize. Satire comes through French and Latin satira, an altered form of satura ("medley, mixed dish"). Despite the spelling and the frequent use of grotesque figures in satire, the word is not derived from the Greek satyr.

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