What is "lampoon"

Usage examples of "lampoon".

There is a personal bitterness in these lampoons, which did not mingle with the strains in which the poet recorded the contest between Miller and Johnstone.

In spite of his diligence, of his sleepless nights, the lampoons continued.

Anyway, Catullus came back to Rome, and there were no more lampoons about Caesar.

Harvard Lampoon prankster who's left fireworks and chamberpots behind for this cutthroat carnival of journalism, and who promptly follows suit to the letter.

But the most amusing personages were the buffoons: they mimicked and joked, and lampooned and lied, as if by inspiration.

As the bottle circulated, and talk grew louder, the lampooning and the lying were not, however, confined to the buffoons.

He would be ridiculed ceaselessly, caricatured and lampooned, the butt of a thousand cruel jokes.

Coming from America now, from the great vindictive mass, always vocal but never heeded—ignored through the ’50s, lampooned in the liberal ’60s, polarized in the apathy of the 70s, returning now with ax-grinding leaders.

Or worse, lampooned, made a sad or faintly ridiculous footnote in the dry histories of aberration.

Coming from America now, from the great vindictive mass, always vocal but never heeded - ignored through the '50s, lampooned in the liberal '60s, polarized in the apathy of the 70s, returning now with ax-grinding leaders.

Farrell would not want his officers lampooned in cartoons as they had been after that affair, if neighbours of the Germans found men perching on their window-sills or in their apple trees pointing things at the Germans’ house.

It was from a website that lampooned the Lord of the Rings in quite humorous terms.

But the crowd left her antics and started to applaud as blunt Malo, from the other side of the island, suddenly wrapped a bit of yellow tapa about his shoulders and made believe he was fat Tatai of Havaiki, executing ridiculous steps to the music and lampooning that chief's pompous ways.

All the same many commentators seem to have preferred lampooning his remarks or his review to reading the book.

The Red Tiger and I agreed this was nonsense—and regretted the clumsy ones who managed to burn their hands off—so we established that the soldiers in Emperor's Own Steel Pack were to wear a branded leather glove on their left hands in honor of Lord Neal, Knight-Defender of the Empire, and that they would not take kindly to anyone lampooning this tradition outside their ranks.