satiricallyadv.

1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie sig. A2^v Though they be Crepundia yet reade them, and if you find any pleasant Facetia, or Quicquid Salius thinke all sauory, and so pleasde without being satirically peremptory.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits viii. 109 For which cause, Iuuenall..did Satirically nip him, saying [etc.].

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 4 I did sometime laugh and scoffe with Lucian, and Satyrically taxe with Menippus.

1697 K. Chetwood Pref. to Pastorals in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ***1^v One of the Ancients has observ'd truly, but Satyrically enough, that Mankind is the Measure of every thing.

1737 E. Manwaring Hist. & Crit. Acct. Classic Authors 139 The Poet is very satirically witty on the Temper of the Age.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. iii. 91 Montoni smiled satirically at what Emily had written.

1840 Knickerbocker Feb. 138 The larger newspaper establishments, satirically termed by their Lilliputian rivals, ‘the respectable sixpennies’.

1884 W. J. Courthope Addison i. 9 The Tory fox-hunter of the Freeholder, though somewhat satirically painted, is a fair representative.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 243/2 Thieves' kitchen (London Street, 1882), the name satirically given to the then new Law Courts.

1977 Oxf. Times 18 Feb. 32/9 They could be satirically caustic without descending to the rancour and sourness which has informed much comparable writing closer to our own time.

2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) xliii. 507 ‘Of course most of them cannot afford a camera—you know how poor we are in our Myanmar’—he laughed satirically as he said the word.