讽刺 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- caricature noun A drawing or description that exaggerates someone's features for comic or critical effect.
- hoot noun The low, mournful call of an owl.
- satire noun A form of writing, art, or performance that uses humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize people, institutions, or society.
Senses
讽刺 is used for these senses in English:
- caricature To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
- hoot To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
- satire (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
caricature — full definition
- noun A drawing or description that exaggerates someone's features for comic or critical effect.
- noun An exaggerated or absurd version of something, distorting it beyond recognition.
- verb To portray someone or something in an exaggerated, often mocking way.
hoot — full definition
- noun The low, mournful call of an owl.
- noun Informal: someone or something very funny or entertaining.
- verb To make the cry of an owl, or to shout in mockery or amusement.
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