the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

a literary genre comprising such compositions.

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banter , burlesque , caricature , causticity , chaffing , irony , lampoon , lampoonery , mockery , parody , pasquinade , persiflage , play-on , put-on , raillery , sarcasm , send-up , skit , spoof , squib * , takeoff * , travesty , wit , witticism , cynicism , diatribe , mock-heroic , pastiche , philippic , ridicule , sardonicism , squib , takeoff