- (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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