Thesaurus / burlesquing
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synonyms for burlesquing
- defame
- asperse
- blister
- burlesque
- calumniate
- caricature
- crack
- denigrate
- derogate
- knock
- malign
- mark
- revile
- roast
- scandalize
- scorch
- sizzle
- slur
- smear
- traduce
- travesty
- vilify
- bad-mouth
- drag name through mud
- give a black eye
- mark wrong
- tear down
- ape
- look like
- mirror
- resemble
- simulate
- act
- burlesque
- caricature
- copy
- copycat
- ditto
- do
- echo
- enact
- fake
- impersonate
- mime
- pantomime
- parody
- parrot
- perform
- personate
- play
- ridicule
- sham
- travesty
- do like
- go like
- make believe
- make fun of
- make like
- take off
- deride
- insult
- parody
- scoff
- scorn
- taunt
- tease
- buffoon
- burlesque
- caricature
- chaff
- flout
- hoot
- jape
- jeer
- kid
- needle
- rally
- rib
- sneer
- travesty
- laugh at
- make fun of
- poke fun at
- show contempt
- thumb nose at
- imitate
- lampoon
- parody
- satirize
- affect
- ape
- assume
- burlesque
- caricature
- counterfeit
- ditto
- do
- fake
- feign
- mime
- mirror
- simulate
- travesty
- hoke
- send up
- take off
- disparage
- exaggerate
- lampoon
- mimic
- mock
- ridicule
- satirize
- ape
- burlesque
- caricature
- copy
- deride
- distort
- impersonate
- jeer
- jest
- joke
- mime
- roast
- sheik
- travesty
- do a takeoff of
- laugh at
- poke fun at
- put on
- send up
- take off
- lampoon
- mock
- parody
- spoof
- banter
- burlesque
- caricature
- cartoon
- deride
- haze
- humiliate
- jeer
- jive
- josh
- kid
- mimic
- needle
- pan
- rib
- ride
- roast
- caricaturize
- jape
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make fun of
- poke fun at
- pull one's leg
- razz
- belittle
- deride
- grin
- jeer
- scoff
- taunt
- affront
- burlesque
- caricature
- crack
- decry
- detract
- disdain
- disparage
- dump
- fleer
- flout
- gibe
- gird
- insult
- jest
- lampoon
- leer
- rally
- ridicule
- satirize
- scorn
- slam
- slight
- smile
- snigger
- swipe
- travesty
- twit
- underrate
- curl one's lip at
- give Bronx cheer
- hold in contempt
- hold up to ridicule
- laugh at
- look down on
- put down
- quip at
- rank out
- sneeze at
- sniff at
- turn up one's nose
- ape
- burlesque
- caricature
- deride
- distort
- imitate
- lampoon
- mimic
- mock
- parody
- pervert
- satirize
- sham
- make a mockery of
- make fun of
- play on
- put on
- send up
- take off
- enact
- perform
- play
- portray
- burlesque
- characterize
- dramatize
- emote
- feign
- ham
- impersonate
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- personate
- personify
- pretend
- rehearse
- represent
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- be on
- bring down the house
- do a turn
- go on
- go over
- ham it up
- lay an egg
- make debut
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- put it over
- say one's piece
- take part
- tread the boards
- be on
- bring down the house
- burlesque
- characterize
- do
- do a turn
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- lay an egg
- make debut
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- perform
- personate
- personify
- play
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- portray
- pretend
- put it over
- rehearse
- represent
- say one's piece
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- take part
- tread the boards
- affront
- belittle
- burlesque
- caricature
- crack
- decry
- deride
- detract
- disdain
- disparage
- dump
- fleer
- flout
- gibe
- gird
- grin
- insult
- jeer
- jest
- lampoon
- leer
- rally
- ridicule
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- slam
- slight
- smile
- snicker
- swipe
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- underrate
- curl one's lip
- give Bronx cheer
- hold in contempt
- hold up to ridicule
- laugh at
- look down on
- put down
- quip at
- rank out
- sneeze at
- sniff at
- turn up one's nose
- emulate
- illustrate
- mimic
- pirate
- repeat
- simulate
- steal
- ape
- burlesque
- do
- echo
- embody
- epitomize
- fake
- follow
- incarnate
- mirror
- mock
- model
- parody
- parrot
- personify
- phony
- prefigure
- sham
- travesty
- typify
- act like
- do a take-off
- do like
- follow example
- follow suit
- go like
- knock off
- make like
- play a role
- take leaf out of book
- take off
- amplify
- exaggerate
- overstate
- act
- burlesque
- enact
- execute
- overdo
- perform
- playact
- present
- produce
- show
- splash
- stage
- farcialize
- give color to
- ham it up
- lay it on
- make a production of
- melodramatize
- play on heartstrings
- play to gallery
- play up
- tragedize
- act like
- ape
- assume
- duplicate
- echo
- emulate
- impersonate
- mimic
- mirror
- mock
- pretend
- replicate
- reproduce
- resemble
- simulate
- affect
- borrow
- burlesque
- caricature
- clone
- copy
- counterfeit
- ditto
- falsify
- feign
- follow
- forge
- match
- mime
- parallel
- parody
- personate
- reduplicate
- reflect
- repeat
- sham
- spoof
- travesty
- Xerox
- be like
- carbon
- do like
- do likewise
- follow in footsteps
- follow suit
- look like
- model after
- pattern after
- play a part
- put on
- send up
- take off
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How to use burlesquing in a sentence
Fletcher's burlesquing Shakspere is no argument against their having written together.
A LETTER ON SHAKSPERE'S AUTHORSHIP OF THE TWO NOBLE KINSMENWILLIAM SPALDINGIt is not Georges Fourest burlesquing in a caf; Fourest's guffaw is magnificent, he is hardly satirical.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUNDMelinda walked mockingly side by side with her, burlesquing her walk and serious face.
NELLY'S FIRST SCHOOLDAYSJOSEPHINE FRANKLINSome of our pious authors appear not to have been aware that they were burlesquing religion.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. 1 (OF 3)ISAAC D'ISRAELIAgain, too, he followed his original with some care, burlesquing rather in detail than on broad lines.
A BOOK OF BURLESQUEWILLAM DAVENPORT ADAMSAt such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.
THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY, COMPLETEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSAh, it is the unique art and the martial music you find entertaining--or were you burlesquing a Communist meeting?
CLASS OF '29ORRIE LASHIN AND MILO HASTINGSThe puppet play was used as a means of burlesquing the legitimate theater and drama.
FOLKWAYSWILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNERThe burlesquing of idols and idolatry always afforded a ready mark for the sarcasm of the prophets.
HEBREW HUMOR AND OTHER ESSAYSJOSEPH CHOTZNERBut this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. II (OF 3)ISAAC DISRAELI