Synonym: burlesque, charade, lampoon, mockery, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty. Similar words: parole, paroxysm, parochial, goody-goody, part and parcel, body, woody, moody. Meaning: ['pærədɪ] n. 1. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way 2. humorous or satirical mimicry. v. 1. make a spoof of or make fun of 2. make a parody of.
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(31) Four of them parody the fire brigade, pecking and pulling a piece of bread.
(32) It muddles facile loathing of a parody bureaucracy with the great issues of statesmanship.
(33) For example, the ability to parody a style can be a useful skill.
(34) But the parody was mistaken for the real thing, and the songs made the charts.
(35) Two or three of us smile, those of us who recognize the parody.
(36) Within a theory of irony, a theory of parody seems equally essential for understanding recent generic mutations.
(37) The ludicrously voluminous Inner notes read like a parody of depraved academicism.
(38) To tie in with the hubbub comes the most successful parody of the group, the Rutles.
(39) A modern day Gothic of such purity that it is almost a parody.
(40) Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together?
(41) At times his work has been cast in a Tzara-like parody of high modernist art.
(42) It's a wicked parody of space blasters, in particular Gradius.
(43) U.N. observers described the election as a parody of democratic process.
(44) Kolender, in television and radio ads, uses pigeons flying out of an open cage to parody the jail system.sentencedict.com
(45) It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
(46) Self - parody and saltiness riddled their core genre.
(47) The parody was just a form of teasing.
(48) a parody of a horror film.
(49) To make a travesty of; parody or ridicule .
(50) New York Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said in a statement the cartoon was "a clear parody."
(51) Often a parody of what people think of as silent movie acting, Valentino became an exotic heart-throb with gleaming eyes and flaring nostrils, in The Sheik, Blood and Sand and Monsieur Beaucaire.
(52) Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
(53) Finally, and most tragically, Caliban becomes a parody of himself.
(54) Anti - Utopian literature is a parody of Utopian literature.
(55) Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song, so at last he turned to parody.
(56) Finally, in the narrative perspective, Vonnegut perfects the postmodern game through the mutability of the first person and third person and the parody of Jesus Christ.
(57) It can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that's full of parody and speculation.
(58) Power lines creep across the valleys like a south Brazilian parody of cable cars.
(59) Mark Twain's A Double - Barreled Detective Story is a novella length parody of whodunits.
(60) The use of such a parody results in the semantic vagueness and unintelligibility. So the...