as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
a pasquinade of Washington society that features thinly disguised portraits of several political power brokers
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Noun
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Doing so, Cohn and Duprat return to their hallmark mode of psychological satire, filtered through a customary comedy-drama prism.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 June 2025 -
The Office isn’t vicious workplace satire, but this sure is.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
Verb
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Fun factoid: Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) talking on the shoe phone has been parodied by many comedians over the years.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Dawn of the Dead has been parodied and referenced many times since, including Shaun of the Dead, the video game series Dead Rising, and a remake that's good enough to appear later on this list, but none of its successors quite captured the level of dread and malaise the original does.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
5 June 2025
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That physicality comes in the form of striking, exaggerated, and caricatured animation straight out of the golden age of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery cartoons.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
11 June 2025
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New York City, with its high concentration of Wall Street finance bros, is a perfect setting to caricature people who score their dates on a spreadsheet.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
Verb
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In September 2024, she was mocked online after releasing a single.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Tonally, the show is all over the place, laying on the moody theatrics one moment, mocking Dave’s writerly pretenses the next.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
Verb
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Love it or hate it, yuppie style à la The Official Preppy Handbook is getting a lot of cultural airtime lately: shows like Sirens and The Perfect Couple have lampooned the look, whereas heritage brands such as St. John’s and Bally are seeing a resurgence.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
3 June 2025
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But critics of the tariffs lampooned the president with memes of tacos and chickens.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has ridiculed Red Bull's protest, which challenged George Russell's maiden victory of the 2025 season in Canada.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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San Francisco has been consistently ridiculed for its rise in homeless population and videos of open-air drug use on the city’s streets.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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That song doesn’t belong in a film that promotes the era’s social fragmentation and repeats fatuous antagonisms — burlesqued by Melissa McCarthy playing the sea world’s villainous white-witch octopus Ursula.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 May 2023
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The seeming callousness with which the dancers burlesque a fourteen-year-old’s death—the breezy way that the dance turns a killing into a sight gag—induces a shiver.—
Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2022
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“Pasquinade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinade. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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