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Est. 1828
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Synonyms of lampooning

  • as in satirizing
  • as in satirizing
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lampooning

verb

Definition of lampooningnext
present participle of lampoon
as in satirizing

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  • satirizing
  • parodying
  • caricaturing
  • mocking
  • ridiculing
  • deriding
  • spoofing
  • burlesquing
  • imitating
  • mimicking
  • aping
  • gibing
  • jibing
  • parroting
  • sending up
  • emulating
  • monkeying
  • travestying
  • replicating
  • simulating
  • reproducing
  • duplicating
  • doing
  • pasquinading
  • pretending
  • feigning
  • shamming
  • copycatting
  • dissembling
  • acting
  • embroidering
  • faking
  • embellishing
  • elaborating
  • counterfeiting
  • exaggerating
  • padding
  • stretching
  • overstating
  • amplifying
  • overdrawing
  • magnifying
  • expanding
  • playing up
  • enhancing
  • impersonating
  • pantomiming
  • performing
  • miming
  • enlarging (on or upon)
  • putting on
  • playing
  • personating
  • fleshing (out)

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