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Mimicking humorously
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parodying
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Word definitions for parodying in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
parody \par"o*dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. parodied ; p. pr. & vb. n. parodying .] [Cf. F. parodier.] To write a parody upon; to burlesque. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. --Pope.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of parody English)
Usage examples of parodying.
As a social group that lay somewhere between the peasantry and the educated classes, the merchants, they believed, were uniquely qualified to lead the nation in a way that reconciled its Muscovite and Petrine elements.
Verulam gives obscene blows of triumphant bestiality with his groin against the frame, miming the events of the celestial orbs in the domain of the decans in order to understand the ultimate secrets of the Great Establishment and the secret of the New Atlantis itself, which he calls Gottlieb’s, parodying the sacred language of the manifestoes attributed to Andreae.
If anyone had asked us why, we would have said it was out of delicacy, or embarrassment, since we were parodying the metaphysics in which he somehow believed.
Miandad smiled, then unconsciously flicked at his moustache, parodying a British officer.
He strode on, a melodramatic actor in his dotage parodying a blind man's walk.