semisatiric en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + satiric.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Partly satirical.
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.
2007 May 10, Ben Ratliff, “A Spaniard With a Taste for Drama”, in New York Times: