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Ranting Randy

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32. Satire, I don't think that word means what you think it means. I'll help.

Reply to Intractable (Reply #31)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 04:32 PM

Dec 2025

satire /săt′īr″/
noun

1. A literary work in which human foolishness or vice is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

2.The branch of literature constituting such works.

3. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose human foolishness or vice.

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