lampoon

How to use lampoon in a sentence

The idea was for Bennifer to perform a cheeky lampoon of their own personas — but the parody didn’t land.

I called Liszt's article a criticism, but "lampoon" or "libel" would have been a more appropriate designation.

Lampoon itself would disdain to speak ill of him of whom no man speaks well.

OBITER DICTAAUGUSTINE BIRRELL

In a few weeks that amusing lampoon on the scholars and commentators of the time had run through four editions.

I dined with Mr. Addison, and Jervas the painter, at Addison's country place; and then came home, and writ more to my lampoon.

I have almost finished my lampoon, and will print it for revenge on a certain great person.

A mug or a jug with an inscription may tell a story of popular party feeling as pointedly as a broadsheet or a political lampoon.

Squib, skwib, n. a paper tube filled with combustibles, thrown up into the air burning and bursting: a petty lampoon.

In the next year, 424, Aristophanes produced the Knights, the most violent political lampoon in literature.

As a rule, however, the lampoon possessed no poetical graces, and in its very nature was usually anonymous.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985