parody
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Parody, in this case, is the sincerest form of flattery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Series producer Clare Parody frequently has to make instinctive adjudications when, as is often the case, a contestant gives an answer that seems a marginal call, but isn't.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024
On April 7 and 8, Park will be performing in “Scream, an Unauthorized Parody Musical.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023
Baffert’s fillies, Fast and Shiny, Parody and Huntingcoco, finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023
Parody, par′o-di, n. an imitation of a poem in which its words and ideas are so far changed as to produce a ridiculous effect.—v.t. to turn into parody, to make a parody of:—pa.p. par′odied.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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