[
US
/ˈpɛɹədi/
]
[ UK /pˈæɹədi/ ]
[ UK /pˈæɹədi/ ]
VERB
- make a spoof of or make fun of
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make a parody of
The students spoofed the teachers
NOUN
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- humorous or satirical mimicry
How To Use parody In A Sentence
- He swung the door wide open in a parody of welcome.
- I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
- Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
- Whenever we film our video game parody skits, we try to include, and harass, as many people in public as we can.
- Stephen Colbert, the host of the parody talk show “The Colbert Report, ” urged his fans to vote for naming the station segment after him, and they did in large numbers.
- Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
- Because this movie is more than just a parody of that series, and it's also ridiculously funny. The Sun
- His face twisted in a parody of smile as he hoisted the grenade launcher.
- Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
- The band's strict avoidance of a ‘stereotypical, gangsta-styled’ video speaks for their desire to avoid parody, and they rejected any script that called for them to present themselves as would-be gangstas.