parodic
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- adjective
- /pəˈrɒdɪk/
- The show's parodic take on reality TV made it a hit with audiences seeking humor.
- parodic stylization
- parodic reference
- parodic expression
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- You know, obviously Charlie Sheen is sort of the, the, the parodic exaggeration of that, right?
Examples
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The name recalls the protagonist of The Double, in parodic homage to the father of the "psycho-thriller" novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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But it is also, at the same time, a parodic fantasy of upward social mobility.
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Critics agree, in fact, that in the end, and despite its declared parodic scope,
Academic text (1992) -
So, yeah, Kiss was already kind of parodic in in what they're doing.
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The character's speech is bringing into play another aspect of Bustos's parodic project.
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Thus far, the critical community has predominantly focused on the parodic and satirical aspects of Bustos's text.
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The text's parodic tone is continued with the description of Juvenal Urbino's undignified and comic death.
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"Bottom's dream," as Montrose would have it, is "recognizable to us as a parodic fantasy of infantile narcissism and dependency."
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The film cleverly uses parodic elements to mock popular superhero tropes.
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His parodic imitation of the celebrity had everyone laughing at the party.
Synonyms
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Imitating something in a funny, exaggerated way to make fun of it
Antonyms
How Parodic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word parodic comes from parody, which comes from the Greek parts para- meaning 'beside' and oide meaning 'song', the same root behind the English word ode. A helpful image is someone 'singing beside' the original to make fun of it, so parodic means copying something in a funny or mocking way.