parody

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  1. noun A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See Synonyms at caricature.
  2. noun The genre of literature comprising such works.
  3. noun Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
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  • The art of the parody is all but lost in these serious-minded days. —  EBSCOhost
  • Though partly intended as a parody, the title alone telegraphed the idea that a food fad swiped from France-and a dominant dish of the '80s-was ... —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • It wasn†™ t a parody, which is what I was afraid of. —  Expecting Rain
  • This parody is about all those lying, cheating, and leftist liberals appointed to the Obama-nation administration. —  Latest amIright Song Parodies
  • (NOM) launches an ad campaign that sets the bar for self-parody, and now they've announced a national campaign called "2 Million for Marriage" -- or 2M4M. —  Bark Bark Woof Woof
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caricature ·  travesty ·  farce ·  grimace ·  irony ·  imitation ·  comedy ·  satire ·  mockery ·  exaggeration ·  mimicry ·  joke

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parody:   parodies ·  parodied
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Latin parōdia, from Greek parōidiā : para-, subsidiary to; see para-1 + aoidē, ōidē, song; see wed-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also parode; = French parodie = Spanish paródia = Portuguese Italian parodia, from Latin parodia, from Greek παρῳδία, parody, from παρά, beside, + ῳδή, song, ode: see ode.
  2. = French parodier = Portuguese parodiar = Italian parodiare, parodare; from the noun.
  3. Middle English, from Greek πάροδος, passage: see parados.
 

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