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.
It's telling that in our culture someone who becomes associated with beliefs such as these is lampooned as a pathetic fogey who apparently thinks those old books are important or something. Principles of Literary Criticism
The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
As noted earlier, this ideologically confused lampoon seems unsure of its target.
To be lampooned, or even ridiculed, is better than being ignored.
They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism.
He was lampooned for his short stature and political views.
Mostly he gets lampooned for regionalisms that are not really properly called errors at all, as Mark noted.
So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian.
The advertisement, which has been lampooned mercilessly, shows her speaking in a soft voice against a smoky grey background and tinkling piano music. Times, Sunday Times
Such lampoons of royalty were previously found only in the foreign press.
Weirder than anything you've seen on "Cops," scarier than the Sci Fi Channel, more changes of plans than "Trading Spaces," more Francophobe comments than "National Lampoon's European Vacation": welcome to Spring Break '03! Some Strange Spring Break
In this tryptic, I find the lampoonery of the physical deformation inherent to both the slight-statured, fat-footed Frodo and the EPO-swilling, peglegged pirate in the first 2 images to be apt signifiers of his poorly cobbled performances and subsequent attempts at mea culpa. The BSNYC Absentee Art Exhibition (Part II)
In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college.
His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the leading politicians of his time.
The 1970 musical Purlie wickedly lampooned a southern segregationist.
Lord President Stair; and the lampoon, which is written with much more malice than art, bears the following motto: The Bride of Lammermoor
His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.
Scenarios lampooning cupidity and gluttony appear on the inside of a covered glass dish, or among the decorations of teapots and vases, or the contents of a serving dish, blurring the line of demarcation that separates faith and folly.
This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers.
Whether this be a mere figure of speech used by that scurrilous lampooner, or whether it indicates that the work was circulated by the religious professors of that period, I cannot determine. The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards.
Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
And his sissiness is fertile ground for lampooning. Why can't we joke about Obama?
But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper.
Cranky and carnaptious, he vented his spleen in satires and clumsy lampoons.
Blood, Sweat & Teeshirt/Takeaways, or documentaries showing what single parenthood is about, are both admired and lampooned. Will Danny Cohen have youth on his side at BBC1?
Adverts for the £60,000 a year jobs were lampooned in The Daily Telegraph's non-job of the week column, last October.
Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
He worked only for political ends, viciously lampooning opponents of the left.
Anna Seward, for example, found Smith's dramatisation of her own life in her writing deeply improper and unfeminine, lampooning Smith for what she perceived as the improper washing of her dirty laundry in public and characterised her sonnets as 'everlasting lamentables [and] hackneyed scraps of dismality'. [ Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749-1806)
In 1980, George W.S. Trow, a veteran New Yorker staff writer and one of the founding editors of The National Lampoon, published a 25,000-word jeremiad decrying the evils of television. The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land
The story comes across as a lampoon of Hollywood, a sort of lame echo of Robert Altman's The Player.
Peter Coleman-Wright, making his role debut with the Royal Opera as the lampooned Beckmesser, attempts similar understatement. Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House
And so the institution in which Ned finds his home is lampooned with glee - probably because they can.
The fun started last week when, as the New York Times put it, "pranksters" lampooned Chevron's ad campaign. Rebecca Tarbotton: Does Chevron Think We're All Stupid?
She had a score of minor writers imprisoned without trial for writing lampoons against her.
His epigrams (most of which are contained in _The Scourge of Folly_, undated, like others of his books) are by no means despicable; the Welsh ancestors, whom he did not fail to commemorate, seem to have endowed him with some of that faculty for lampooning and "flyting" which distinguished the Celtic race. A History of Elizabethan Literature
The so-called lampoon is designed to provoke outrage against Google's perceived privacy intrusions, but some viewers may find the privacy group's tactics even more outrageous. E-Commerce Times
Skelton, a contemporary of the French Rabelais, seems to us a weak English portrait of that great author; like him a priest, a buffoon, a satirist, and a lampooner, but unlike him in that he has given us no English _Gargantua_ and _Pantagruel_ to illustrate his age. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
In the last weekly Downing Street meeting for parliamentary private secretaries, the cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin, was lampooned for telling ministerial aides: "If this goes well we'll have nothing to legislate on in two years' time. David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
Even more frustrating was the fact that all these topics were being lampooned in the rich underground repertoire of jokes, doggerel poems, and song parodies circulating among the public.
He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.
George Etheredge, gambler and lampooner, with drink and the devil all over him; solemn Thomas Thynne, murdered two years afterwards, for a woman's sake, by Count Conigsmark, who was hanged for it and lay in great state in a satin coffin; and last, my Lord Dover, with his great head and little legs, looking at the people through a tortoiseshell glass. Oddsfish!
Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon.
What that guy doesn't know he just makes upDoes anyone remember the serious attempt in the 80s to make it a criminal offence to lampoon a politician, is it going to make a reappearance with the word criticise replacing lampoonInvestigative journalism or not, it was still worth publishing. Politics.ie
More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2.
Gordon Liu, a veteran Chinese actor, has a standout role lampooning the traditional kung-fu master role.
This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon.
Lucky for Littell he was writing, as it turns out, for an appreciative (French) audience; they seem aware, largely, of the fact that the novel has a right to present its horrors as horrible; its subtle arguments without convenient keys and its jokes quite bitter if the world they lampoon is inarguably cruel. Our Stories
The missions and objectives were never clearly defined, and the self-parodying "search for WMD" in Iraq (lampooned by the president himself at a subsequent press dinner) was a willy-nilly adventure in comic relief -- to wit, Donald Rumsfeld's classic remark that "we know where they are: they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat. Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny
His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.
We're just parroting and lampooning pop culture and current events because there's so much stuff that we were force-fed when we grew up.
Nothing destroys a lampoon faster than someone unwilling to take it seriously.
It seemed only fitting that the Lampoon, which has thrived on necrological humor, would at last find itself forced to kill one of its own items. Twilight of the Dreamboats #16
Typically these outlanders are lampooned for their conspicuous consumption and lack of community commitment.
The spiritualists called down thunder upon the head of the poet, whom they depicted as a vulgar and ribald lampooner who had not only committed the profanity of sneering at the mysteries of a higher state of life, but the more unpardonable profanity of sneering at the convictions of his own wife. Robert Browning
Thanks for those links :) Obviously I assumed they were 'lampooning' the sort of show I mentioned I'll use the word lampoon at any given opportunity...) it just seems a bit of a random one to choose! Fuzz of a Paul-less nature...
Phil, it’s disapointing that you are so ready to lampoon the excesses of Web 2.0 and other tech fluffery, but don’t perceive the limitations of your own background in puffing up another of the thousands of pointless developers’ concoctions. Wyacracker shoots skywards « Squash
And I think that the prankishness of George's books, this dressing up in a quarterback's togs, playing golf with Sam Snead and all that, tied in somehow with the prankishness, the game-ness, this willingness to be fantastic which related to George's experiences at the Lampoon. The Last Gentleman
A real opposition to statism in both its welfarist and militarist guises is resurgent and it finds itself in a target-rich environment full of follies to lampoon, lambaste, and expose.
Although the official media afford him considerable respect, he is the object of some derision among other Chinese, who lampoon what they call his mediocre performance as a student, his unkempt ways and his prodigious girth; in recent years, his weight has exceeded 220 pounds. PrairiePundit
Their rigorous versions of management education differ profoundly from the one that Stewart lampoons. Letters to the Editor
The one-time Harvard Lampoon writer is today best known for his contributions to “Sesame Street” and as creator of “Between the Lions” (my old friend Gene Barretta illustrates the “Between the Lions” books, by the way), and has parents are known as the founders of Random House. Waldo Jaquith - Christopher Cerf’s “The World’s Largest Cheese.”
This is not simply a lampoon of the genius-architect; it is also an homage by the one-time architecture student.
While Vonnegut bitterly lampooned the placelessness of Midwestern life in Breakfast of Champions with his portrait of a fictional "Midland City" based on Indianapolis, he also wrote warmly of the way the very flatness of the region could inspire "awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Matt Sledge: Kurt Vonnegut Returns To Midland City
Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
All semblances to actual persons or events, living or dead, is frankly impossible, but if there is a resemblance then it is either accidental, or a lampoon, and in either case you can't prove it so don't bother suing me.
It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press, radio and TV.
I needed something (relatively) easy to lampoon to help me out of this & % $#! slump, so I sat down and (in my extreme boredness) came up with this right while sitting at the 'Submit Latest amIright Song Parodies
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
So in summary, according to Mitt Romney: presidents can't create jobs, so vote for Mitt Romney for president to create jobs.6.41pm: Breaking news – sort of – an ABC News affiliate has got hold of the video lampooning Mitt Romney made by the pulchritudinous daughters of Jon Huntsman, one which was blocked by the Huntsman campaign. South Carolina primary: Mitt Romney's rivals ask taxing questions
America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast.
Satirist, parodist, cartoonist or lampooner alike, will often be protesting at, not just laughing at, their victims. Times, Sunday Times
His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.
I wanted to avoid them but unfortunately I couldn't get through the forest of waving placards displaying Mao, Obamma and a mural of Clinton with waving red banners and toiling farmers in the background, but with her face which didn't flatter her much since it looked like she was prairie-dogging it (trying to suck a turd back in) (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)). Bison survival blog
I'm motivated to indulge in the latter because so many 'brights' constantly and savagely lampoon the alleged nuttiness of religious people's views. Bits and Pieces of an RNA World
This concept, much lampooned, refers to the devices in each home that are connected to networks. Times, Sunday Times
Closed circuit cameras in city centres were lampooned as being ‘Big Brother’ when they were first introduced.
It lampoons a certain type of overwhelming, over-articulate American. 2009 June 19 « educating alice
In one hour, he takes on 50 different caricatures in a flurry of bright-coloured paper cut-outs, all of them elaborate, exaggerated lampoons of familiar icons, moving from one to another like a human flick-book.
This choice presents an immediate problem, since it's infinitely more difficult to lampoon a bad movie than it is a good one.
Though Shakespeare was using the word to lampoon the pretentiousness of Elizabethan pedagogues, there was a joy in the cascade of vowels and consonants that beat anything I had heard on television. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The darling of the French public retains his popularity with most, although he is lampooned by some for his melodramatic 18 months of denial.
He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.
Great lampoons introduce a familiar setup then take the audience somewhere unexpected.
I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors. J.D. SALINGER HATES INDY, STILL ALIVE
Who knew that the send-up documentary "This Is Spinal Tap" not only lampooned the business of rock and roll but illustrated deep philosophical conundrums? Hear It, Feel It
Nightingale of Ceiriog, the sweet caroller Huw Morus, the enthusiastic partizan of Charles and the Church of England, and the never-tiring lampooner of Oliver and the Independents. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
This concept, much lampooned, refers to the devices in each home that are connected to networks. Times, Sunday Times
This concept, much lampooned, refers to the devices in each home that are connected to networks. Times, Sunday Times
He was lampooned for his short stature and political views.
She also lampoons the pabulum of business motivational books and the pieties of CEO memoirs in a book that is consistently funny in its stomach-turning way. From Medea on the Bayou to Shenanigans in the Office
At the start of his career, one recurring theme of his work was the lampooning of the so-called feminization of American culture as men abandoned hard labor to work for corporations. THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE
However, in many ways the film is more of a lampoon of Hollywood than current US policy.
As it rompingly lampoons the ignorance and repression of female sexuality in Victorian society, this continually surprising play also ponders the blessings and curses of new motherhood, the dawning of the age of electricity and the frictions between love, art and science. The Seattle Times
Speaking in his first Sunday news-show appearance in nearly two years, Mr. Romney jabbed at Mr. Gingrich as an "unreliable" conservative and lampooned some of the former House speaker's more novel ideas. Rivals Diverge on Late Tactics in Iowa
So I think you're still playing a fine line, but I am satirising him and the lampoon is this - here is a very hungry, publicity-seeking guy who will do anything for anybody given the opportunity.
Twenty-four years earlier, Aristophanes in his play Clouds had lampooned Socrates as a sophist who taught his pupils to scorn parental authority and subvert civic justice for their own gains.
Such was the man, ushered into whose presence, Horace, the reckless lampooner and satirist, found himself embarrassed, and at a loss for words. Horace
Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed.
We are naturally displeasd with an unknown critic, as the ladies are with the lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark, and know not where to fasten our revenge. Dedication
It is noteworthy that while liberals have been able to lampoon and persecute traditional Roman Catholics over the years; deny them authentic use of their churches for The Mass of All Times and who have calumniated them for other alleged misdemeanours, there are those who would take exception to your remarks here which pale in comparison and are entirely inoffensive. The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start
An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons.
Africans (so far as one can generalise) find the lampooning of the high-and-mighty hilarious. Times, Sunday Times
His replacement at the Call lampooned Twain in the newspaper—so much for professional courtesy—as a melancholy-looking Arab, known as Marque Twein. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
In process of time these pasquinate or pasquinades tended to become satirical, and the term began to be applied, not only in Rome but in other countries, to satirical compositions and lampoons, political, ecclesiastical, or personal.
Ted's first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
Many households will be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
Many households will be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the writers burlesqued or lampooned are British, and since the effect of parody depends on familiarity with the original, the Anglo-emphasis might seem a hindrance for American readers. The Sincerest Form of Ridicule
First came a song lampooning the chancellor for breaking his promises on tax.
There was a bitter and personal quarrel and rivalry betwixt the author of this libel, a name which it richly deserves, and Lord President Stair; and the lampoon, which is written with much more malice than art, bears the following motto: The Bride of Lammermoor
And they were always lampooned regularly in the press as idiots, as garbage. St. Patrick's Day Recalls Irish Immigrant Experience
Reid's ardent theme, ‘Izzy and Lizzy,’ with the same bar pattern as ‘Frankie and Johnnie,’ is a lampoon of the sordid nineteenth-century folk song.
It's also so jam-packed with pop culture references and media lampoons that it runs the risk of insulting or isolating the very audience it is trying to entreat.
Both are relatively small oils on canvas that lampoon those who grasp and fawn over power and wealth.
Many of them ended up as hired hacks, making ends meet by writing pornography, or libellous lampoons of Court figures (including the queen, whose supposedly unslakable lust for sexual partners of both sexes they chronicled in detail).
The Prime Minister was frequently lampooned in political cartoons.
Sanchez assumed that Stewart and Colbert were both anti-Hispanic bigots because they were constantly lampooning him as an anti-intellectual, dim-witted buffoon. Dan Sweeney: It's the Stupid, Stupid: Rick Sanchez Fired for the Wrong Reasons
Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
The mimics, however, have hotly defended their artistic freedom to lampoon anyone, however big.
Joining the lampoon will be the likes of Kim Basinger, Chevy Chase and Ringo Starr. There Is Nothing Like This Dame
Carter would frequently be lampooned as overly concerned with minutiae, most notably in a 1979 Atlantic article that said he busied himself with matters as trivial as classical music play lists and reservations for the White House tennis court. In church or in print, former president Jimmy Carter still preaches policy
By contrast, Michael Schaffer, editor of the Washington City Paper has echoed the Stewart/Colbert mood by issuing a memo to his editorial team that lampoons the straight-laced response by august rivals. How to cover satirical political events - chuckle in a non-genuine manner
While there is no official word about whether its development owes any direct thanks to Roberts 'Hell House Outreach kits -- odds are strong that the lampoon is a more than fitting homage for a profoundly anti-sex, anti-equality message that belongs buried in the dark ages of antiquity. Theresa Darklady Reed: Halloween "Hell Houses" Act Out Depraved Christian Wet Dreams
The result was a wacky lampoon featuring dolls, newspapers, and rolls of tape.
destructiveness" which characterises the Badawi: he is "keen for satire as a thirsty man for water:" and half his poetry seems to consist of foul innuendo, of lampoons, and of gross personal abuse. Arabian nights. English
Now that Italian society has become increasingly secularised, and the power of the church has ostensibly decreased, contemporary pasquinades do not, in general, lampoon the Vatican.
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
Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting.
His ideas, I am told, have much weight with the fair doctoress; and in the lampoons of the day the new constitution is said to be the offspring of their amours, and to have inherited its father's deformity. The Valley of Decision
It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with.
At times awkward in his delivery, he has a propensity to pepper his sentences with the word "chiz," the Farsi equivalent of "um" or even "thingamebob" (a YouTube clip lampooning this verbal habit is already up). The Washington Note
Many households will be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
In the second Dialogue he took some liberty with one of the Foxes among others; which Fox in a reply to Lyttelton, took an opportunity of repaying, by reproaching him with the friendship of a lampooner, who scattered his ink without fear or decency, and against whom he hoped the resentment of the Legislature would quickly be discharged. Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
Hopefully, Fey will lampoon all that "doggone" notecard reading on tomorrow's show. Obama's Lead Keeps Growing In Tracking Polls
It'll be Jim-dandy when the late-night lampooner returns for the first show of 2011 with Jim Carrey taking on hosting duties. Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011
Here is a look at two toy mailboxes my daughter has been playing with even though neither is intended for her age and I kind of lampooned the whole idea of buying a toy mailbox in an earlier post. *cough* Was that me? Review: Two Toy Mailboxes | Thingamababy

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