| satirist | | |
| n. (person) | 1. ironist, ridiculer, satirist | a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm. |
| ~ humorist, humourist | someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way. |
| ~ decimus junius juvenalis, juvenal | Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140). |
| ~ francois rabelais, rabelais | author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553). |
| ~ dean swift, jonathan swift, swift | an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745). |
| satire | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn.; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" |
| ~ humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| scorn | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. contempt, despite, disdain, scorn | lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" |
| ~ dislike | a feeling of aversion or antipathy.; "my dislike of him was instinctive" |
| n. (communication) | 2. contempt, scorn | open disrespect for a person or thing. |
| ~ discourtesy, disrespect | an expression of lack of respect. |
| ~ fleer | contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words. |
| ~ leer, sneer | a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls. |
| ~ sneer | a contemptuous or scornful remark. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. contemn, despise, disdain, scorn | look down on with disdain.; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" |
| ~ detest, hate | dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards.; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians" |
| ~ look down on | regard with contempt.; "the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest" |
| v. (communication) | 4. disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down | reject with contempt.; "She spurned his advances" |
| ~ refuse, decline | show unwillingness towards.; "he declined to join the group on a hike" |
| ~ rebuff, snub, repel | reject outright and bluntly.; "She snubbed his proposal" |
| ~ pass up, turn down, decline, refuse, reject | refuse to accept.; "He refused my offer of hospitality" |
| ~ turn down, turn away, refuse, reject | refuse entrance or membership.; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" |
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