[
US
/ɫæmˈpun/
]
[ UK /læmpˈuːn/ ]
[ UK /læmpˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
VERB
-
ridicule with satire
The writer satirized the politician's proposal
How To Use lampoon In A Sentence
- The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
- Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.
- a plucky lampooner of the administration.
- And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy. Science & Education
- Many households must be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning attempts at parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
- Viewers are jokingly referred to as pasty shut-ins, lampooning assumptions about the audience for online video. BikiniZero Takes Net News to ‘Natural’ End
- The Prime Minister was frequently lampooned in political cartoons.
- She will lampoon "Cameron's stupendously inane soundbite about a security fightback being followed by a social fightback" and claim the prime minister's vision for dealing with socially excluded people is "the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate. Green party leader seeks to woo Liberal Democrats
- Wallace & Gromit has a lot of good-natured fun lampooning conventions from old horror movies (both those from Universal and Hammer).
- His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the leading politicians of the day.