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Lampooned

Lampoon \Lam*poon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lampooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Lampooning.] To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon.

Ribald poets had lampooned him.
--Macaulay.

Syn: To libel; defame; satirize; lash.

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lampooned

vb. (en-past of: lampoon)

Usage examples of "lampooned".

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.