satirized

past tense of satirize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirized
Verb
  • Released in 2000, the first of the Wayans brothers’ Scary Movie franchise parodied popular horror, including Faris’ memorable spoof of Drew Barrymore’s Scream opener.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In its Saturday cold open, the sketch show parodied the final New York City mayoral debate, with Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Fear of being outed or being suspected or being made fun of, ridiculed, losing your standing.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Democrats ridiculed Vance’s performance.
    Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Playing someone such as Cohn, a public and much-imitated figure, is hard enough.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Silverstone also imitated the runway look by choosing to skip a necklace.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On the political right, the term is often condemned or derided.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Cuomo mocks Mamdani’s thin resume, just as Republicans derided Obama’s qualifications.
    Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Crucially, the scientists mimicked this process by creating an artificial neural network, and by applying a simple algorithm called gradient descent to increase the accuracy of its predictions.
    James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Manicurist Brittney Boyce, Fox's go-to nail artist, mimicked that deep red color on the star's nails—with a modern, reflective cats-eye texture.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even worse, self-driving vehicles present safety concerns and other vulnerabilities, such as being hacked or spoofed by malicious agents at home or abroad.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In one, the sausages spoofed Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls, chasing panicked employees through a narrow office corridor.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Satirized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirized. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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