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lampooning
adjective as in satirical
adjective as in satirical/satiric
noun as in mordacity
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noun as in mordancy
Weak matches
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- flouting
- invective
- irony
- mockery
- mordacity
- put down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- trenchancy
- wisecrack
noun as in sarcasm
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Weak matches
noun as in trenchancy
Strong matches
Example Sentences
And one thing it’s been lampooning since the beginning is the idea of the superwoman who can ‘do it all.
In some meta-reversal of roles, the debating Biden became Jon Stewart lampooning the debate after it took place.
P.S. I've assumed the entire time Posner is lampooning everyone who is enraged by his story.
Her religion too—indeed religion in general—is in for a lampooning.
She keeps an eye on the enemy with a popular on-air bit called “Rightwing World,” lampooning conservatives.
The orators and journals of the opposition were ridiculing and lampooning him without measure.
Tom was growing restless under this lampooning of his connection with The New Democracy.
He was a satirist as well as a humorist, and was bold in lampooning the prominent men of his time, not even sparing the king.
Quevedo, imprisoned four years in the Leonese dungeon for lampooning him, would probably remember him in a less amiable light!
It began by boldly asserting the necessity for reform, lampooning the Regent, and attacking the cant and excesses of Methodism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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