Sardonic vs. Satire — What's the Difference?

Scornfully or cynically mocking

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

Given to making sardonic remarks

A literary work in which human foolishness or vice is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Scornfully mocking or cynical.

The branch of literature constituting such works.

Disdainfully or ironically humorous.

Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose human foolishness or vice.

Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; - applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.

(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. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.

(countable) A satirical work.

Disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking;

Severity of remark.

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn;