burlesques 1 of 2

noun

plural of burlesque
as in parodies
a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect it is interesting to note that the first novel ever written in English was followed by a burlesque of it

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burlesques

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verb

present tense third-person singular of burlesque
as in mocks
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of burlesquing the teacher's nervous tic isn't very nice

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  1. parodies
  2. mocks
  3. spoofs
  4. imitates
  5. satires
Noun
  • The five stars teased the project with parodies of their characters in a promo video.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The name of the collection parodies the seriousness of the museum, even as the collection itself is the kind of thing that has traditionally gotten scant attention within actual institutions.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of parodies
Verb
  • Continue reading … PULLING THE STRINGS — Bruce Blakeman mocks Hochul as 'puppet' of socialist Mamdani.
    — , FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • We are presented with a few potentially hissable villains, including an attorney for the state (Christian Rubeck) who mocks the Gheorghius’ faith and a frostily inflexible social worker, Gunda (Ellen Dorrit Petersen).
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of mocks
Noun
  • The film draws on 1980s supernatural comedies, including Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family, alongside classic monster movies and horror spoofs.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Blanchett cofounded the nonprofit Human Consent Foundation to help people register how AI models can — or cannot — scrape their likenesses in an effort to combat such spoofs.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of spoofs
Verb
  • After a long chase Rama is able to kill the deer with his arrow, but, before dying, Maricha imitates Rama’s voice and cries out for Sita and Lakshmana.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of imitates
Noun
  • Yet, the brothers aren’t looking to get overly political, even if their films are often satires.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of satires
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