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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
\
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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