lampooned

past tense of lampoon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lampooned
Verb
  • Later that year, it was parodied by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live and referenced by Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026
  • Among the other films parodied in the new Scary Movie are Weapons, Longlegs, The Substance and KPop Demon Hunters.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Verb
  • In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Critics derided the move, given their lack of traditional management experience.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 9 June 2026
  • Once derided as fringe science, this bizarre idea is having a very real comeback as searches for dark matter continue coming up empty.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Gray and the rest of his teammates went down to the end zone and mocked the rookie quarterback.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Social media users mocked Rogan’s comments.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Jeep is speaking out against influencers who tore apart the interior of its newest model, the Recon, and ridiculed it in a viral video from the Los Angeles Auto Show, which opened its doors last week.
    Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • One of the things is sorta the opportunity to tell my story here, of, like, a kid who played chess growing up throughout school and was to an extent ridiculed and ostracized.
    Heather Abbott, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • His use of jocular names for detention centers has been imitated by other Republican governors creating state facilities to be used by ICE.
    Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • Even business models can be imitated.
    Esade Business & Law School, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Verb
  • Phone numbers, email addresses, and websites can all be spoofed to appear legitimate.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 June 2026
  • When signals are jammed or spoofed, aircraft lose the situational awareness that modern operations assume as given.
    Greg Ombach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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“Lampooned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lampooned. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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