(v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
(v. i.) To employ burlesque.
(a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
(n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
(n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
(2) The two identities coexist as "two hearts beating in my chest", and have different back-stories: while Neuwirth was born in the Austrian town of Gmunden, Conchita comes from the mountains of Colombia and has a fictional husband, burlesque artist Jacques Patriaque ("a fairytale – he's actually a close friend of mine").
(3) Are we really asking standups to compete with burlesque dancers and rock music?
(4) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(5) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(6) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
(7) I think they had some kind of burlesque-type dancing on a stage, but it was mainly just 90s house, techno and people dancing, in drag.
(8) Faena has seven buildings under construction, including an arts centre, a luxury hotel and burlesque theatre designed by film director Baz Luhrmann to invoke the spirit of a Latino Great Gatsby.
(9) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(10) Compered by the ventriloquist and standup comedian, it is billed as a mix of cabaret, burlesque, magic, musical comedy and circus performance.
(11) It saw the first night of his most successful play, The Love Of Four Colonels, a cold war satirical burlesque in which Russia, America, Britain and France partition the land in which the Sleeping Beauty lies.
(12) Union Music, Lewes Running a burlesque boutique in a Sussex market town wasn't enough of a challenge for Stevie Freeman.
(13) I once stayed out drinking there with burlesque superstar Dirty Martini until the early hours of the morning.
(14) The owners Steve and Hannah book an eclectic mix of music, burlesque and comedy and you can guarantee something off the wall will be on.
(15) It was the exact opposite, weaving puppets and games around set pieces – which included a rap about going for a smear test and a burlesque act where slogans about equal pay were all that was revealed.
(16) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
(17) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
(18) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
(19) In the comedy programme, the majority of acclaimed shows were by women, including the visiting American standup Tig Notaro, British standup and actor Sara Pascoe, and the extraordinary Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the New York burlesque double-act The Wau Wau Sisters.
(20) But the regulator noted that ITV "regretted that some viewers were taken aback by the performance, but it believed that it took appropriate steps to minimise potential offence", and said that because Aguilera's routine was based on her film Burlesque that the costumes had to be seen "in context".
Charade
Definition:
(n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
Example Sentences:
(1) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(2) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(3) Ranieri's dismissal doubtless came as a relief to him, ending a charade that saw him summoned to two meetings with Chelsea's chief executive Peter Kenyon over the past week at which he was asked to discuss his future plans for the club.
(4) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(5) The recent parliamentary elections, widely dismissed as a charade, tend to confirm US views.
(6) Ernest Hemingway is the key performer in this charade, his characterisation of Stein as “a woman who isn’t a woman” a crude mirroring of his own gender fears.
(7) She decided to carry on with the charade and answer real questions about policy during the debate.
(8) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
(9) Do not use our music or my voice for your 1) September 9, 2015 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) ...moronic charade of a campaign."
(10) The judge told Gray that her dependence on Butler was so deep that she was prepared to do anything for him, including participating in the “grotesque charade” of a 999 call two hours after Ellie was murdered.
(11) At all events, we are back to the old days of appointments not applications, and a lot of distinguished candidates have been the victims of what became a complete charade.
(12) One of those on the previous committee confided that the entire procedure was a charade, but a good networking opportunity.
(13) Scrutiny of EU measures Parliamentary proceedings are increasingly "becoming a charade" because of the amount of EU measures parliament has to pass unamended, Tory ex-chancellor Lord Lamont complained, saying: "Fifty percent of all major British legislation starts in the EU".
(14) Rights groups have accused Sisi’s regime of using the judiciary as a tool to oppress opposition, with Amnesty International denouncing the death sentence as “a charade based on null and void procedures”.
(15) The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics.
(16) Shaker might wonder out loud why Britain went along with President Bush’s deadly charade.
(17) Egypt has pardoned and released two al-Jazeera journalists who had been jailed for disseminating “false news” in a trial widely criticised as a political charade by human rights groups and international observers.
(18) "Now it appears that the entire process was a charade.
(19) He concluded by saying: “This unhappy sequence of events drives me to the conclusion either that Mr Kovtun never in truth intended to give evidence and that this has been a charade.
(20) Mousavi said this morning: "I personally strongly protest the many obvious violations and I'm warning I will not surrender to this dangerous charade.