pasquinading

present participle of pasquinade

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasquinading
Verb
  • The Pentagon last month approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the DOJ to serve as temporary immigration judges, with the administration tapping the military to boost its effort to process and accelerate deportation maneuvers.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In one, a Russian tank charges along a dirt track, sending up clouds of yellow dust.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These contrivances became so well known that, in 2009, the All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler spent much of his appearance mocking them.
    Kim Hew-Low, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The music video is a single shot of Welch in the back of a car, singing along in a suit, sporting shades and a cigar, both mocking and inhabiting the position of male dominance.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Jeremy Allen White brilliantly channels The Boss without mimicking him.
    Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Prescribed burns help clean up forest debris and stimulate new growth, mimicking natural fire patterns in the high country.
    Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said hackers accessed the system by imitating a legitimate user account.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Life isn’t quite imitating art for Kim Kardashian.
    Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • With spoofing tools, criminals can mimic real bank phone numbers and even use AI to reproduce familiar voices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Twice now, the Mamdani campaign has rolled out television spots aimed at co-opting and spoofing huge entertainment industry franchises — ABC’s The Bachelor and CBS’ Survivor.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The brand announced the drop on Instagram with a campaign video parodying 1970s game shows.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Meta/Facebook has rolled out engaging bots, parodying famous personas such as Jane Austen; Snapchat has offered a chatbot to individual users.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
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
Verb
  • By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.
    Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The show opened with a skit mocking Hegseth, portrayed by comedian Colin Jost, ridiculing the Defense Secretary's address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia, last week.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Pasquinading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinading. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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