lampooning

verb

present participle of lampoon
as in satirizing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lampooning
  1. parodying
  2. caricaturing
  3. mocking
  4. ridiculing
  5. deriding
  6. spoofing
  7. imitating
  8. mimicking
Verb
  • The latter went from working on Star Trek properties (Next Gen, Voyager, Enterprise) to parodying them with MacFarlane on The Orville.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The White House announced Arcade on social media with a series of animations parodying Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo loading screens.
    — Lou Kesten, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of parodying
Verb
  • 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
Definition of caricaturing
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Vision decrypts a mocking email exchange between Ultron and Paladin, who’s angry his unbreakable contract was broken.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
  • As proof of how much of a joke this has become for people is that a sketch mocking their drama was part of the October 10 episode of Saturday Night Live UK.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of mocking
Verb
  • Sorry, but that does not disqualify you from ridiculing a quarterback for being melodramatic.
    — Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • In 2012, fury over an anti-Muslim film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sparked violent clashes across the Muslim world.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of ridiculing
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  • Decades later, long after Hemingway’s death, in 1961, Carlos Baker, Hemingway’s biographer, told Conrad about some of the letters deriding him.
    — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • So many algorithms are chock-full of messaging deriding our state for its problems with affordability, housing costs, homelessness, the wealth gap, or regulation and bureaucracy.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of deriding
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  • The would-be crook used caller ID-spoofing technology, which experts say is getting more and more convincing.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Musical guests Katseye cameoed in a sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live, spoofing their point of origin, Netflix’s Dream Academy.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of spoofing
Verb
  • Leni completed the costume with a wig imitating Camilla’s dark, curly tresses, and wore the character’s most iconic outfit with a white tank top and oversized hairbow.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Rather than simply imitating the brain with silicon chips, the approach uses actual neurons to perform computational work.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of imitating
Verb
  • Fusion energy has long promised virtually limitless, low-carbon power by mimicking the physical reactions that fuel the Sun.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Color Shift adds blue and red halos around subjects, mimicking the look of a lens with heavy chromatic aberration.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of mimicking
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