noun
The exposing of vice or folly, especially by wit
mockery, irony, ridicule, caricature; see irony, parody.
A work containing satire, sense 1
burlesque, parody, lampoon, caricature; see parody. See syn. study at wit.
See satire in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
A work, as a novel or play, that exposes folly by the use of humor or irony:
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