Parody is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARODY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to imitate in a satirical manner for comic effect
• produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre)
• mimic humorously
• To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
• make a spoof of or make fun of
• make a parody of
NOUN:
• an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
• an imitation or version of something that falls far short of the real thing; a travesty
• A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
• A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
• a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody\'s style, usually in a humorous way
• humorous or satirical mimicry
• exaggerated and amusing imitation of someone else's style
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to imitate a serious literary work for comic effect
• exaggerated and amusing imitation of someone else\'s style

Words related to PARODY

parodic12 parodical14 parodied12 parodies11 parodist11 parodists12 parodying16

Words that contain PARODY

parodying16

How to use PARODY in a sentence

• He it was who, in admiration, repeated the passage to Johnson which provoked the parody.
• In every German duodecimo-principality a parody of the English constitution is set up, quite complete, from Upper and Lower Houses down to the Habeas Corpus Act and trial by jury.
• The State and the Kingdom of God, or the Moral Law, are so entirely different in their character that the former is a parody of the latter, a bitter mockery at the absence of it.
• As can be seen from this list, they make heavy use of parody and mockery.
• Mallock puts into his mouth is not a parody, but an absolutely faultless reproduction both of substance and of style.
• But it may be fairly objected that this is not, in strictness, a parody.
• But to each belongs its right and natural expression, and to parody the love of lovers between friends revolts the growing sense of humankind.
• Beside him walked a larger sunburnt parody of himself, his brother Tom, just back from Australia.
• Parody always fixes upon the best pieces, and was more to the taste of the Greeks than to ours.
• Western thought, when it crosses her frontier, falls under the spell of her autocracy and becomes a noxious parody of itself.
• The parody of the words of Shakspere or of the Bible, which has in it something of the nature of a lie, is far from unpleasing to us.
• Many things in Buddhism lent themselves to such a transformation or parody of earlier teaching.
• Parody sometimes became a refined instructor for the public, whose discernment is often blinded by party or prejudice.
• It was a pathetic parody of all that home usually conveys.
• Browning, guided to his works by a parody which a lady wrote in our little magazine.
• This was the idea which suggested the following little essays in parody.
• Abbott gives us here? We would defy any man to parody that.
• We do not need to know French literature before Voltaire in order to feel, although the lurking parody may escape us, that he is poking fun at us and at himself.
• The marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia is said to be only a parody of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis.
• But I was hardly prepared to find in Hamburg a parody of polite life in this respect.
• It became like a parody of the beautiful English Synge wrote in the noon of his genius.
• Hardy plots tragic situations for his characters in some of his other poems is, indeed, in repeated danger of misleading him into parody.
• Daniel has produced what is little better than a parody of the scene in his model.
• It was a wilder, more debased, and more barbaric parody of Christianity than the Mormonism of Joe Smith.

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