SATIRE
- the use of ridicule or scorn to criticise folly or vice [n -S]
- the use of derisive wit to attack folly or wickedness [n SATIRES] : SATIRIC [adj]
- a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
- enchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
- the use of irony or ridicule in exposing vice, folly, etc.