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par·o·dy
| \ ˈper-ə-dē
, ˈpa-rə- \
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
1
: to compose a parody on
parody a poem
2
: to imitate in the manner of a parody
parodic
\
pə-ˈrä-dik
, pa-
\
adjective
parodistic
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ˌper-ə-ˈdi-stik
, ˌpa-rə-
\
adjective
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.
The Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story is a spot-on parody of the brainless action heroes of the ’90s.
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David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022
There's something about the New Zealand character that lends itself to parody , Clement says.
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Luaine Lee Tribune News Service, Star Tribune , 20 July 2021
There’s been no reason given for the project’s scuttling, but one assumes the fact that Detours was a parody of the Star Wars franchise might have something to do with it.
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James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Aug. 2022
This song is, frankly, not a bad Bob Dylan impression — but, c’mon, seriously, only Dylan can carry off Dylan, and every other attempt to do a Dylan is a parody — of the doer.
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Liza Lentini, SPIN , 20 July 2022
What was real and what was parody was almost indistinguishable.
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Jake Coyle, ajc , 19 May 2022
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The film is made to parody 1950’s celebrity and political culture as well as give a quirky perspective on the era’s famous personas.
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Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country , 28 June 2022
More recently, he's begun posting TikTok videos that lovingly parody common movie and TV tropes.
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USA Today , 22 Mar. 2022
Rifkin’s Festival is a comic retrospective about a film professor (played by Wallace Shawn) who, in his pathetic senior years, sees his life in terms of old films — flashbacks and fantasies that parody the classic canon.
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Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022
Both the costumes and the photos actually parody the sort of images Westerners once made of Middle Eastern women.
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Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021
However, the memo was meant to parody legislation in the U.S. restricting women's reproductive rights, and Rabb told USA TODAY his bill was never intended to pass.
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Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY , 2 Oct. 2021
To poke a hole in Instagram’s artificial veneer, Kite suggests encouraging your teen to follow people who parody social media’s toxic culture, such as comedic critics like @hicaitlinreilly.
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Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2021
However no one attempted to parody Smart's role as the Fruit Ninja-loving, manhattan-chugging great-grandmother Helen, because why mess with perfection?
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 16 June 2021
The blonde 31-year-old is known in downtown circles for the ability to lightly parody a ditzy life of iced matchas and Brandy Melville shopping sprees while also being the smartest voice on luxury timepieces for women.
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Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 19 May 2021
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Definition of parody (Entry 2 of 2)
caricature , burlesque , parody , travesty mean a comic or grotesque imitation. caricature implies ludicrous exaggeration of the characteristic features of a subject.
caricatures of politicians in cartoons
burlesque implies mockery especially through giving a serious or lofty subject a frivolous treatment.
a nightclub burlesque of a trial in court
parody applies especially to treatment of a trivial or ludicrous subject in the exactly imitated style of a well-known author or work.
a witty parody of a popular novel
travesty implies that the subject remains unchanged but that the style is extravagant or absurd.
this production is a travesty of the opera
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'parody.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback .
1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1
1733, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Latin parodia , from Greek parōidia , from para- + aidein to sing — more at ode
“Parody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parody. Accessed 12 Sep. 2022.
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