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Definition

imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way

or:

a very poor imitation of somebody's style

parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way

parody = a funny imitation of somebody's style

Some even wrote parodies of my poem, reading them to me in the hopes of getting under my skin.
Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why

parodies = imitations of somebody's style — done in a way intended to be funny

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

parody = very poor imitation

parodies = humorous imitations of things done to mock or make fun of them

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

parodies = a very poor imitation of somebody's style

"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

parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way

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

parody = imitation of somebody's style in a humorous way

It was a feminine voice but not hers. A parody of a girl's voice.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

parody = very poor imitation

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

parody = poor imitation

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

parody = a frightening imitation

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

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