parodynoun
uk/ˈpær.ə.di/us/ˈper.ə.di/[ C or U ] writing, music, art, speech, etc. that intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the features or qualities of the original more noticeable in a way that is humorous:
He was an 18th-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
There is a hint of self-parody in his later paintings.
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travesty
[ C ] disapproving something that so obviously fails to achieve the effect that was intended that it is stupid:
"It was a parody of a trial," said one observer.
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
- vignette
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Mocking and taunting
Failures
parodyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈpær.ə.di/us/ˈper.ə.di/to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way:
One of the papers is running a competition in which you have to parody a well-known author.
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Mocking and taunting
- burlesque
- caricature
- deride
- derision
- derisive
- fun
- haze
- lampoon
- lay yourself open to ridicule idiom
- make a mockery of sth idiom
- make a monkey out of sb idiom
- mimic
- mock
- mockery
- mocking
- sardonic
- scoff
- send
- send sb/sth up
- send-up
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