(n.) A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
(n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
(v. t.) To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the show and that’s the best and worst thing about it,” he says, before using a recent parody of Beyoncé’s monologues in her visual album Lemonade as an example.
(2) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(3) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(4) I can't find much use for Altmejd's work, other than to describe and parody it.
(5) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
(6) Skifcha spurned a wave of parody videos and fan art but it’s all been rather quiet over the past few years.
(7) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
(8) Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter Read more While LGBT characters have maintained some form of visibility within independent cinema, they have been parodied, stereotyped and used for tiresome gay-panic humour in their rare appearances in studio films.
(9) (The UN speech lives on in several forms; mostly parodies.)
(10) Greenpeace energy analyst Jimmy Aldridge said: “The fact that it’s [Defra] that is trying to keep one of the most polluting power stations in Europe open is beyond parody.
(11) Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performed a parody of the smash hit Mamma Mia!
(12) President Jonathan wholly shares the widely expressed view that the signs which were put up without his knowledge or approval are a highly insensitive parody of the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag,” his office said.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
(14) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(15) Victory is no less assured than it is for Bashar al-Assad, facing his date with Syria's destiny next month – though that exercise has been widely condemned as a parody of democracy.
(16) His most popular and best-known work is contained in fast-moving parodies, homages or even straight reconstructions of traditional space-opera adventures.
(17) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
(18) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(19) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
(20) Broadcaster and football fanatic Danny Baker parodied the BBC's instructions to Neville: "We've an idea tonight's match could get quite heated.
Travesty
Definition:
(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(2) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(3) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(4) The BBC is facing a growing political backlash to its proposed cuts to local radio after MPs lined up at a Westminster debate to criticise the changes as unfair, unjustified and a "travesty" for listeners.
(5) It would be a travesty for Australian democracy if these careful and thought-through reforms were not in place in time for the next federal election,” said the shadow resources minister, Gary Gray.
(6) Like his party, Griffin likes to project an image of besuited normality, speaking for the common citizen against the liberal establishment, and the BBC appears to have bought this travesty.
(7) Amnesty International called the verdict a "travesty".
(8) It would be a travesty if Chile were to concede a late equaliser here, such has been their almost total domination.
(9) Klimt is so often undervalued, just because of this travestied masterpiece.
(10) And if Walcott somehow ends up with England in France this summer it’ll be an utter travesty.
(11) In an interview with Deadline, the film-maker angrily vowed to put the film on hold in the hope that such drastic measures might prevent similar travesties in future.
(12) It was a game that got away from us and we could have lost it in the end, which would have been a travesty.” While Villa did not play like a side in trouble, points are ultimately what matter and Lambert still has to convince all of his side’s supporters that he is the man to lead the club into calmer waters.
(13) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(14) "With Costa Rica's rich biodiversity, it would be a travesty for them not to stand up for sharks, which sit at the highest levels of the food chain assuring balance among ecological communities in the ocean," Sea Shepherd said.
(15) The award-winning children's writer Alan Gibbons read a statement from the playwright Hall , in which Hall urged the council to change its mind, saying that "a Labour administration which would even consider closing all local libraries travesties the history of the Party and the Labour movement".
(16) He said "of course [Jones] meant hide the decline in temperatures, which caused another scientist, Kevin Trenberth of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, to write: " The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't ."
(17) If Cameron and his ministers try the same trick with the commemoration of the 1914-18 carnage, it will be a repulsive travesty.
(18) That Ray Tensing is currently free and walking around in public is a travesty,” the statement said.
(19) "The impact these cuts will have on all of its programming is a travesty," she told the debate in parliament's Westminster Hall.
(20) "A standing tribute to one of the biggest travesties of the 20th century on Saturday followed by VIP guided bar crawl with English speaking guides."