NOUN
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
How To Use sendup In A Sentence
- Our chills multiplied and we almost lost control anticipating a musical montage, but then the Travolta/Newton John sendup ended up on the cutting-room floor. The James Franco/Anne Hathaway 'Grease' routine: Now it can be seen
- They might characterize that bit of nonsense as merely a "sendup" and the missing citations as exercises deliberately left for the reader. 'Computers in Your Future'
- But the opera is a comedy, and the production—a sendup of the sacred cows of German Art and Culture—is a hoot that, for the most part, goes with the music and the text. At Richard Wagner's Old Stamping Grounds
- Witness the madcap antics of "The 39 Steps," the Hitchcock sendup still raking in laughs off-Broadway, or the caustic sneer of "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's comic slap at deal making in Hollywood. 'Brief Encounter': Mad about its style
- Now Mr. Cohen has a feature-length film with a title as malapropos as Borat's sendup of Kazakhstan.
- For older observers, the maritime metaphor recalls a sendup of Wall Street, "Where Are the Customers 'Yachts?", first published in 1940 and reissued seven years ago. Connecting.the.Dots
- I know, I know, it's a satire, a sendup of rallies, a rally against rallies, a mockery of the entire concept, a grass-roots-inspired, user-generated parody. The case against Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, by a 'Daily Show' fan
- At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles. Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women'
- He's flattered by copycats and loves Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal, including the video sendup of Jackson's quirks. Archive: Michael in the mirror
- There and elsewhere in the story, Hemon nails the macho posturing that prize judges often reward, though his tale is more than a sendup of pomposity. 2009 September 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews