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burlesqued

adjective as in imitated

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“The Carol Burnett Show,” which frequently burlesqued movie genres, soap operas and other cultural touchstones, was showered with awards and is widely regarded as one of the most influential comedy programs of all time.

Basquiat plainly harbored that emotion even as, for art’s sake, he burlesqued it, packing spaces around and amid the vehement black lines with abstract fiestas of white, red, blue, and yellow.

If Shakespeare's savage tragicomedy can be burlesqued in Native American drag, what might these irreverent Yanks do with Pinter's trademark pauses?

She has become the archetype of the cinema woman, adulated, burlesqued, imitated, envied.

In one of his satires, Horace gives us an idea of the manner in which slaves burlesqued their lords at this jocund time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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