Mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

Usage examples of parodist.

The grimaces and caperings of buffoonery, the gymnastics of the punster and the parodist, the revels of pure nonsense may be, at their best, a refreshment and delight, but they are not comedy, and have proved in effect not a little hostile to the existence of comedy.

And at this Camus, an inveterate forger and parodist, had some experience.

He is the author of many, many short stories, and a versifier and parodist of note.

In this scene the artist is a parodist, adult, realistic, a painter who impresses his inner visions on the world, remaking it through the medium of his work and imagination.

Radcliffe and Lewis are fair game for the parodist, but it would be difficult to find a false note in the feverishly intensified action and high atmospheric tension of the Irishman whose less sophisticated emotions and strain of Celtic mysticism gave him the finest possible natural equipment for his task.

Minaev, a talented parodist, added some ironic verses lampooning the novel.

In fact, the language of Homer was one nobody, except epic bards, oracular priests or literary parodists would dream of using.

Breen summarizes how parodists and pastiche writers have treated EQ in his article on p.