Fun and Satire

Fun

Fun noun - Someone or something that provides amusement or enjoyment.

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Satire and fun are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Satire" instead a noun "Fun".

Satire noun - A creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general.

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Fun and satire are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fun" instead a noun "Satire".

good	good fun	good satire
gentle	gentle fun	gentle satire
clear	clear fun	clear satire
pure	pure fun	pure satire
Other adjectives: best, complete, many, light, popular, playful, serious, cruel, subtle, dramatic, general, hilarious, lighthearted, comic.

The Thursday Next books are full of jokes, parodies, and satire as part of their Alternate History that has little to do with the plot and are simply bits of fun.

Source: Narrative Filigree
Satire: The game pokes fun at the attitude of starting wars for the sake of freedom and spreading democracy.

Source: Video Game / Helldivers
First comes from the government trying to prosecute a satire magazine, Penguen (Whose naming almost certainly plays this trope straight) for making fun of the then-Prime Minister Erdogan.

Source: Everything's Better with Penguins

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