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verb as in condemn
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verb as in confine
verb as in convict
verb as in curb
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verb as in demoralize
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verb as in detain
verb as in heighten
verb as in imitate
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verb as in imprison
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verb as in jail
verb as in lampoon
verb as in mock
verb as in parody
verb as in restrict
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verb as in ridicule
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verb as in tease
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verb as in travesty
verb as in twit
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noun as in burlesque
noun as in caricature
noun as in comedy
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noun as in lampoon
noun as in lampoonery
noun as in mockery
noun as in parody
noun as in satire
noun as in spoof
noun as in takeoff
noun as in travesty
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Example Sentences
It works best as a comedy, a clever send-up of electoral politics.
She starred in the 1986 soap opera send-up “Fresno” on CBS and in a couple of short-lived TV series.
To capture that excitement, we asked Times staffers to look into their crystal balls and preview the culture likely to dominate the water-cooler conversation this season, from “The Substance,” a gross-out parable of Hollywood glamour, to “Interior Chinatown,” a clever send-up of the industry’s history of Asian stereotypes, to Shaboozey, the genre-defying artist poised to take the Fonda by storm next month.
Premiering Nov. 19 on Hulu, the 10-episode series was created by Charles Yu and adapted from his National Book Award-winning novel of the same name, a moving, inventive send-up of Asian stereotypes in pop culture.
It’s a thriller about petty men undone by aspiration: mostly silly, sure, but also at times clever in its send-up of electoral politics.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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