(n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
(v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
(2) Born in Chicago, Ramis worked as a teacher and journalist before teaming up with comedians John Belushi and Bill Murray for the wildly successful National Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973.
(3) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(4) Scalia was subsequently lampooned in a cartoon segment of Stewart’s The Daily Show titled “The Human Dissentipede.” Scalia was a champion of originalism, which he later called textualism: the approach to constitutional interpretation that looks to the meaning of words and concepts as they were understood by America’s founding fathers in the context of the 18th century.
(5) At times the tightly chaperoned tour already felt as if National Lampoon’s Cuban Vacation had been scripted by over-earnest communist officials.
(6) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(7) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(8) Samuel Butler lampooned this stance in his classic satire, Erewhon , describing a culture who imprisoned the sick for the crime of not being well.
(9) A few years later, Furth was in another western, Mel Brooks' lampoon Blazing Saddles (1974), as one of the many townsfolk called Johnson - his name being Van Johnson.
(10) Much of his work – including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979) and Ghostbusters (1984), all of which he co-wrote, and Caddyshack (1980), which he co-wrote and directed – changed the course of US film comedy, even if the prudish might argue that it was not for the better.
(11) When his own backbenchers were joined by a much-lampooned Tory, Sir Tufton Beamish, Wilson decided to outflank them all by making his announcement.
(12) Cameron, who had to endure the rare experience of negative headlines lampooning him as a lightweight, held his nerve as the Tories set the political weather at their conference.
(13) In National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Ramis brought his steady hand to an increasingly hysterical road movie about a family on the way to a theme-park holiday.
(14) "What is happening now is a military coup," he bellowed shortly after entering the courtroom, in the hectoring tone that Egyptians came to lampoon during his year-long presidency.
(15) Can the new host deliver a similarly potent mix of smart and silly political lampooning ?
(16) The Greek team, lampooned in cartoons in the foreign press including one showing them in a kit sporting a German eagle, as if sponsored by Germany, were more circumspect.
(17) The crew later branched out into film with National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978.
(18) "His films have lampooned the great and the dictators, raised up the common man against the rich," the paper said.
(19) If not, Christie is a lying thug himself.... Christie’s presidential ambitions are all but kaput, as he will be lambasted and lampooned as a man of low character and horrible judgment — again viewing him in the most favorable way."
(20) This Kim is not his father, the much lampooned skinny figure in a badly-cut Mao suit with weird hair and a dose of gout.
Vilify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
(v. t.) To treat as vile; to despise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Social workers are blamed and vilified, but we should be proud of what we do Read more “We have six seats for 11 people,” says Sarah Grade*, a children and families social worker based in south London.
(2) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
(3) What if the ad vilified African Americans, or Jews, or any other group for which public denigration is less permissible?
(4) As campaigns director for the pressure group, Oxley spent years vilifying government spending – with a special assault on development.
(5) Vilified, prosecuted, but – in the court of public opinion – ultimately vindicated: this is what happens to the heroes of democracy.
(6) David Wall: "Mark van Bommel has been wrongly vilified and miscast as a serial fouler.
(7) Some are starting to vilify and insult the disappeared students and demonise their parents and their demands,” said Hernández.
(8) Mark Field, the Conservative MP for the City of London and Westminster , said Hester had been "vilified" and warned that the intense row would put the best candidates off running the majority state-owned bank in the future.
(9) John Kerry , the US secretary of state, is vilified for continuing to insist that only negotiations can end the conflict – while simultaneously sidestepping the central question of Assad’s future – in line with Putin’s position.
(10) We are resigned to being blamed and vilified for the actions of any Muslim anywhere in the world.
(11) Instead, vilify and humiliate anybody who challenges – however meekly – the status quo.
(12) I was vilified, relentlessly, over 33 days, with over 800 hate emails ...
(13) His reputation was destroyed and he was vilified, he says.
(14) Barnaby Joyce defends halal after Coalition MPs express concern Read more “It is against the law to vilify Jews and it is not politically correct to denigrate blacks or gays.
(15) He remains popular despite efforts by Muslim groups to vilify him and is seen as the frontrunner in the election, though many voters are angry with him for evicting large numbers from slums to modernise Jakarta.
(16) Jayne Ozanne, a prominent campaigner for LGBT equality within the Anglican church, said: “Jeffrey is already a bishop in many of our eyes – he has been the ‘chief pastor’ to those of us who have felt discriminated against and vilified for the sake of our sexuality.
(17) Though he loves sport, he is now sworn off attending NFL matches at the MetLife stadium after attending a Jets v Titans game with his girlfriend and being “vilified from the parking lot to my seat for wearing a scarf”.
(18) Instead, we are vilified and made out to be money-grubbing if we complain about our working conditions.
(19) While ministers vilify people on benefits ( Freud sorry for comment about disabled people , 15 October), we urge everyone who thinks this is wrong to stand up for benefit justice.
(20) For decades they have been arbitrarily detained, denied education and livelihood, harassed, vilified in the media, and executed.