semisatiric

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English

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Etymology

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semi- +‎ satiric

Adjective

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semisatiric (not comparable)

  1. Partly satirical.
    • 2007 May 10, Ben Ratliff, “A Spaniard With a Taste for Drama”, in New York Times[1]:
      The crowd appeared to be mostly Spanish, but that may be only for now; with her dark sunglasses and spired peineta (the ornamental comb worn by flamenco singers), she’s created a semisatiric princess-of-darkness persona that isn’t hard for outsiders to understand.

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