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Parody

noun

(pl. parodies)

A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. Synonyms: burlesque, charade, lampoon, mockery, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty.

Humorous or satirical mimicry. Synonyms: mockery, takeoff.

verb

(past & past part. parodied; pres. part. parodying)

Make a spoof of or make fun of.

Make a parody of. Synonyms: burlesque, spoof.

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"Parody" Quotes from Famous Books

... her, sleep-talking was uncanny to the point of horror; it was like the talking of the dead, mere parody of a ...

— The Man Whom the Trees Loved • Algernon Blackwood

... 1070. Harmonia, by the Scholiast upon Apollonius, is styled [Greek: Numphe Nais] l. 2. v. 992. The marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia is said to be only a parody of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. ...

— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant

... to read them. And what have we to do with books? The Herr Doctor might perhaps be asked for his advice; but we have no INDEX EXPURGATORIUS in Grunewald. Had we but that, we should be the most absolute parody and farce ...

— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson

... sometimes comical, sometimes awful. Grimm says, "He was Jewish, heathenish, Christian, idolatrous, elfish, titanic, spectral, all at once." He was "a soul snatching wolf," a "hell hound," a "whirlwind hammer;" now an infernal "parody of God" with "a mother who mimics the Virgin Mary," and now the "impersonated soul of evil."21 The well known story of Faust and the Devil, which in so many forms spread through Christendom, is so deeply ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... be able to say with the apostle, "None of these things move me." The sick, the halt, and the blind look up to Christian Science with blessings, 343:12 and Truth will not be forever hidden by unjust parody from the quickened ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

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