satirical

Used with adjective complement

• become: Thus pornography comes of age when, taken closer to its root, it becomes satirical, and then socially critical.

Modifies a noun

• sideswipe: His satirical sideswipe at white, middle class, suburban America was wickedly funny, fantastically well observed and perfectly cast.
• cartoon: Drawing satirical cartoons of Mohammed will get you a death warrant.
• swipe: As a satirical swipe at the news media in the US, Victory takes no prisoners.
• comedy: Ricky shot to wider fame with his excellent satirical comedy The Office which took Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.
• poem: More Hadith Enemies of Muhammad would often write satirical poems about him.
• wit: They contemplate the world with nostalgia, with anger, with sharp satirical wit.

Modifying Another Word

• bitingly: He wrote some of the most brilliant and bitingly satirical novels of his day.
• often: All his work is characterized by a humorous and often satirical approach to the subject matter.
• very: I was rather pleased with the letter, for I thought it very satirical.
• savagely: Its tone is savagely satirical for the most part.
• gently: Host Jon Stewart's monolog was gently satirical without ever straying into controversy, while the various winners seemed at pains to behave themselves.
• sharply: A sharply satirical look at our attitude to politics and politicians, this is a hilarious play and well worth seeing.

Preposition: in

• tone: It will be light-hearted and satirical in tone, but with an important point to make.