The Clue
Molière's "The Miser," e.g. (6 letter answer)
The Answer
SATIRE
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Notes
The answer SATIRE is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.
Related Clues
Caricature
Lampoon
Pasquinade
Swiftness?
Aristophanes' forte
"Candide," e.g.
Certain writing
Defoe forte
It bites
Juvenal's genre
Literary derision
Literary form
Literary genre
Literary sarcasm
Lucian's forte
Lucilius's forte
Piece that bites
Pope's "The Dunciad" is one
Sillographer's forte
Silographer's forte
Swift gift
Swift product
Swift work
Swift's forte
Trenchant wit
Voltaire's forte
Voltaire's metier
Voltaire's style
Vonnegut's forte
Work of Juvenal
"The Colbert Report" and such
Dario Fo forte
"Dr. Strangelove," e.g.
Forte of Baker and Buchwald
"Gulliver's Travels," e.g.
Gere of "Gulliver's Travels"
Mad magazine's genre
Many a Swift work
Pope or Swift product
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Orwell's "Animal Farm," e.g.
"Saturday Night Live" genre
Much of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report"
Definition
SATIRE as a noun:
1. (sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark) = 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"--Jonathan Swift