plural parodies
1
: a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
wrote a hilarious parody of a popular song
2
: a feeble or ridiculous imitation
a cheesy parody of a classic western
parodied; parodying
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Examples of parody in a Sentence
Noun
He has a talent for writing parodies.
a writer with a talent for parody
Verb
It was easy to parody the book's fancy language.
She parodied her brother's poetry.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
Claim originally shared by parody account on X On Jan. 20, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, where a mob of Trump's supporters disrupted the counting of electoral votes after the 2020 election.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
In Sassy Justice, the technology was used to parody Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Its parody, ‘Johanne Sacreblu,’ is the real work of art, writes columnist JP Brammer.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
Claim originally shared by parody account on X On Jan. 20, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, where a mob of Trump's supporters disrupted the counting of electoral votes after the 2020 election.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
West’s hellfire-and-locust symbolism parodied biblical judgment, but such shame no longer applies to current secular permissiveness or the progressive ideology in Marxist writer Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990), famous for its subversive condemnation of Los Angeles’s capitalist elitism.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
In Sassy Justice, the technology was used to parody Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Parody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parody. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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