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parodyparody2 verb (past tense and past participle parodied, present participle parodying) [transitive] VERB TABLEparody |
Present | I, you, we, they | parody | | he, she, it | parodies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | parodied | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have parodied | | he, she, it | has parodied | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had parodied | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will parody | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have parodied |
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Present | I | am parodying | | he, she, it | is parodying | | you, we, they | are parodying | Past | I, he, she, it | was parodying | | you, we, they | were parodying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been parodying | | he, she, it | has been parodying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been parodying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be parodying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been parodying |
- The movie parodies such classics as "Gone with the Wind" and "Casablanca."
- Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image.
- For example, the ability to parody a style can be a useful skill.
- Four of them parody the fire brigade, pecking and pulling a piece of bread.
- He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
- He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice.
- Some companies deliberately parodied the new trade-names, safe in the knowledge they would never be taken seriously.
- Thus language begins to parody itself, and so does literature, as Joyce shows in the Ithaca section of Ulysses.
to copy someone or something in a way that makes people laugh: His style has often been parodied.—parodist noun [countable] |