01 n. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals d…
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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.
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Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.