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 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
  • Over two months, the protesters and their supporters – most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ – used Instagram and Snapchat to connect, organize, and share countless reels parodying the government.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 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
  • Last year, the Brewers finished five games in front of the Cubs and then eliminated their big-market rival in October, celebrating with an L flag in their team photo, mocking a Wrigley Field tradition.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Hansen can be cruelly mocking towards his oft-flustered but extremely professional producer Andie Bender (an astonishingly good Merritt Wever).
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of mocking
Verb
  • The blogger has been on a years-long apology tour after relentlessly ridiculing celebrities in the 2000s.
    — Ethan Beck, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Trump hailed Bray’s announcement in a Truth Social post ridiculing the Indiana Senate leader.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
Definition of ridiculing
Verb
  • Social media in South Korea have been filled with messages stoking fears about safety on Jeju, with some spreading groundless rumors and deriding the island.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In response, the players went on strike, deriding the proposal as anti-labor.
    — Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of deriding
Verb
  • Its selectable impact angle and software designed to resist GPS spoofing are intended to provide greater flexibility against personnel and other targets in the vicinity of the engagement point.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
  • CyberGuy has also explained how scammers impersonate water and other utility companies by spoofing familiar phone numbers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of spoofing
Verb
  • One year later, Clooney, 65, is back at the Venice Film Festival for a spin in the spotlight on the opening night for a bit of life imitating art.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Slop is formulaic and impersonal, the aggregate of everything that is already imitating everything else.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of imitating
Verb
  • Although Craven’s touch is missing, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett honor his memory by mimicking his style while engraving their own slick mark.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The 600-soldier 173rd Airborne Brigade, built to deploy wherever drones were needed, had been mimicking Ukrainian tactics and rapidly building its own systems to counter Russia and Iran-style threats.
    — Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of mimicking
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