as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
this classic musical is a lampoon of the movie business at the time when sound was introduced
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Recent Examples of lampoon
Kyler Alvord, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The redistricting was then lampooned in a political cartoon, showing the districts in the shape of a winged mythical beast.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
Mary Harron’s American Psycho owes a debt to the spot-on evisceration of the hollow, nihilistic corporate culture that Nichols lampoons here.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noun
One of the first questions revolved around the patio's viral yellow-and-white-striped umbrellas, which look identical to the umbrellas at Mar-a-Lago and have been lampooned in countless social media posts for resembling chain restaurant patios.
—Kyler Alvord, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The redistricting was then lampooned in a political cartoon, showing the districts in the shape of a winged mythical beast.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
All manner of mindless momentarily distracting entertainment scraps are thrown into this stew, from the Hokey Pokey to a lampoon of the birth of Jesus.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
Mary Harron’s American Psycho owes a debt to the spot-on evisceration of the hollow, nihilistic corporate culture that Nichols lampoons here.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lampoon
Noun
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While not everyone took to Cult’s broad political satire, it’s still considered a fine mid-era installment.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Oct. 2025
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While framed as satire, the content references child exploitation, raising questions about the adequacy of Sora 2’s safeguards.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Bulimia is no joke, even if Early finds unexpected humor in satirizing how such issues were once dealt with by mainstream TV.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Young Frankenstein, released in 1974, is considered a comedy classic and parodied monster movies of the 1930s, Universal’s Frankenstein films in particular.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Katie Couric is parodying Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle jeans ad for a good cause.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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These projects are often caricatured, but their strategic logic is clear: build new clusters, catalyze supply chains and skills, and crowd in private capital.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The drama was followed by another housemate, George, being evicted after mocking gay housemate Sam.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
8 Oct. 2025
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The new video is part of a pattern in which DHS has increasingly deployed memes to mock migrants and popular culture.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In practice, despite his rhetoric, Israel’s longest serving prime minister’s security policy was widely seen as cautious and relatively restrained, even derided as cowardly by political rivals, who also mocked his inability to make decisive moves.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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That notion, derided by Hoyle, had already evolved from its original meaning.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Weitzman co-wrote and stars in the film, which delights in spoofing tired Hollywood storytelling and franchise fatigue, while toggling between jokes that are exceedingly clever and thrillingly dumb.—
William Earl,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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Benicio Del Toro made a surprise cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live tonight, joining host Bad Bunny and frequent collaborator Marcello Hernandez in a sketch spoofing the idiosyncrasies of the Spanish language.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
4 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The show opened with a skit mocking Hegseth, portrayed by comedian Colin Jost, ridiculing the Defense Secretary's address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia, last week.—
Chandelis Duster,
NPR,
5 Oct. 2025
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She was ridiculed in online forums and on at least one radio show, and dismissed by a Michigan State Police dispatcher who likely didn't even send out a patrol car.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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