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Definition
imitation of somebody's style in a humorous wayor:
a very poor imitation of somebody's style
- Did you see Saturday Night Live's parody of people in a fitness class?
parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way
- I think it's the funniest parody on YouTube?
- Some even wrote parodies of my poem, reading them to me in the hopes of getting under my skin.Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why
- They had been standing in the traditional pose of fighters, gloves raised, ready for battle but a pathetic parody of professional fighters.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- "Hip" people love parodies.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- It was almost perfect, just a fraction flatter and shakier than Betty Jean's voice had been, the o's and ah's parodies of Betty Jean's...Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
- The Kommandos lifted their heads at the sound and in mocking parody of the soldiers marched over to the wall.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- "Just you wait—" Jack mimicked the whine and scramble. ... Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- It was a feminine voice but not hers. A parody of a girl's voice.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- I will be wife to no buffoon; to no clumsy old clown; to no debauched, degraded parody of a man.Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Outlaw of Torn
- At every other point the king was an absurd parody of the Professor.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Lost World
- It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
- I will parody them...Austen, Jane -- Mansfield Park
- Its parody-rituals of the parade ground serve the ends of Holdfast, the tyrant dragon, not the God in whom self-interest is annihilate.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Rockman's face was close to hers, his body pinning her in an obscene parody of love.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- She tells me that before the revolution Cuba was a pathetic place, a parody of a country.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- But her face wasn't an emotionless parody of herself or a cruel mask.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- Such verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's Stanza is a fair specimen.William Wordsworth -- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
parody = a funny imitation of somebody's style
parodies = imitations of somebody's style — done in a way intended to be funny
parody = very poor imitation
parodies = humorous imitations of things done to mock or make fun of them
parodies = a very poor imitation of somebody's style
parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way
parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way
parody = very poor imitation
parody = poor imitation
parody = a frightening imitation