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parodying
adjective as in satirical
Example Sentences
Mark Raffman’s famed for getting ink with parodies of “Be Our Guest,” as he did yet again just last week, but this week he taps “Stairway to Heaven,” anagrammed to “I Vote, He Rants Away.”
That no one under the age of, say, 30 would have any clue what Rudd and Poehler were parodying.
He was parodying what was called in those days the folk music boom.
Is Shriver parodying this hardened genre—hysterical realism—or is she re-creating it?
Given the success of his “Imagine,” perhaps Cain should consider extending his Beatle-parodying ways on the campaign.
In honor of Rosh Hashanah, watch viral videos parodying hits by Kanye West, Shakira, LMFAO, and more—all with a kosher twist.
"Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.
Parodying the equivocal compliment, I may say that though Uncle Jack was no giant, there was nothing lost in him.
He shrieked: 'Hic hocus pocus,' parodying the 'Hoc corpus meum' of the Mass.
Also, while we're parodying maxims, it's a wise author that knows his own play on its first night.
Even the independent opera buffa preserved much of this parodying reference to the opera seria.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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