as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
this classic musical is a lampoon of the movie business at the time when sound was introduced
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Recent Examples of lampoon
Kyler Alvord, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The redistricting was then lampooned in a political cartoon, showing the districts in the shape of a winged mythical beast.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
Mary Harron’s American Psycho owes a debt to the spot-on evisceration of the hollow, nihilistic corporate culture that Nichols lampoons here.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noun
One of the first questions revolved around the patio's viral yellow-and-white-striped umbrellas, which look identical to the umbrellas at Mar-a-Lago and have been lampooned in countless social media posts for resembling chain restaurant patios.
—Kyler Alvord, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The redistricting was then lampooned in a political cartoon, showing the districts in the shape of a winged mythical beast.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
All manner of mindless momentarily distracting entertainment scraps are thrown into this stew, from the Hokey Pokey to a lampoon of the birth of Jesus.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
Mary Harron’s American Psycho owes a debt to the spot-on evisceration of the hollow, nihilistic corporate culture that Nichols lampoons here.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lampoon
Noun
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There are some theatrical releases coming home for the first time, like a buzzy Julia Garner horror flick and a celebrity satire with Kate Hudson and Elisabeth Moss.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Get Shorty remains a classic Hollywood satire and one of the great examples of the decade’s foray into meta films.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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During the subsequent century, filmmakers returned to this reflexive mode of cinema for a variety of reasons, either to examine their artistic process, explore formal innovations, expose some horrible secret, or, perhaps most often, satirize the ivory-tower industry itself.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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After the relationship between Swift and Kelce went public, Pomeroy made a video parodying a day in her life, hearing her name around Kansas City.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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As Buffy, Shannon Elizabeth parodied the girl-next-door archetype, eventually proving to be not so innocent behind the scenes.—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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These projects are often caricatured, but their strategic logic is clear: build new clusters, catalyze supply chains and skills, and crowd in private capital.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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The principal of a Chicago elementary school that employs a teacher who appeared to mock the assassination of Charlie Kirk apparently portrayed the educator as a victim amid backlash over her behavior.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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He has already been known to privately mock conservative pastors.—
Rev. Nathan Empsall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Given the ubiquity of stories and humanity’s vulnerability to them, citizens today would be wise to practice the skills of literary analysis, the very techniques routinely derided and devalued in a world committed to technology and tribalism.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Taibleson defended her conservative credentials during her confirmation hearing, and both Democratic and Republican senators derided the opposition campaign.—
Lawrence Andrea,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Even worse, self-driving vehicles present safety concerns and other vulnerabilities, such as being hacked or spoofed by malicious agents at home or abroad.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Weitzman co-wrote and stars in the film, which delights in spoofing tired Hollywood storytelling and franchise fatigue, while toggling between jokes that are exceedingly clever and thrillingly dumb.—
William Earl,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Claiming victimhood was a cop-out; those who made accusations of assault were ridiculed.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Beyond this, there has been a significant amount of backlash on social media, as users have ridiculed the move by Austin.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Lampoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lampoon. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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