Lampoon used in a sentence

Lampoon in a sentence as a noun

If someone criticizes an action and then does that very thing or worse, people lampoon him. I don't know what you find so perplexing about that.

> And if you're going to lampoon anyone who uses "ill-gotten" wealth for philanthropy... I can't see how you'll ever be happy.

And if you're going to lampoon anyone who uses "ill-gotten" wealth for philanthropy... I can't see how you'll ever be happy.

I was trying to lampoon your hypersensitivity, but you're welcome anyway.

If people miss it, they are either bad at reading comprehension or deliberately wanting to misunderstand to lampoon Gladwell. I'm not a huge Gladwell fan.

Peaceful sit-ins on unused public land, out of the way of the entrenched interests is something to lampoon... nothing to be afraid of.

This is the readily and deservedly lampoon-ready tail end of snooping on everything without know what you are looking for.

And I'll add that cars are heading in exactly the direction that you lampoon. If the car industry had thought like you, they'd still be back on hand-cranking to start the car, needing to maintain the battery's water level, and having to wear goggles.

Lampoon in a sentence as a verb

Make them into caricatures, lampoon them, exaggerate their folly so that people will not just be angry at them on your behalf but seem them as an absurd throwback to a time you wish had passed. Tell a story that demonstrates the moral high ground.

I say bring on more lawsuits against neonates, foeti and octogenarians - they'll scupper their own cause pretty swiftly as they lampoon themselves.

We tend to think that as history progresses, more and more taboos are broken and we're freer today to publish or lampoon ideas, people and events than in the past. One thing that's surprised me about satirical images from the 18th century is how bold they sometimes are.

"Meritocracy" is not a real concept of how to run a community, but rather a satirical term used to lampoon the idea that "merit" is a 1-dimensional concept which can be measured linearly and used to judge people and rank them. The term was invented as satire.

The term PC was originally invented by Reaganite republicans as a piece of propaganda to lampoon the left. The weird thing is that it then ironically caught on, presumably amongst complete dimwits.

Some VCs go out of their way to lampoon the idea of an MBA. If the author of this article has experienced a similar sentiment, it makes a lot of sense for this article to be titled this way. If the prevailing mode of thought is that MBAs aren't useful, or aren't technical, MBAs must present fact-based argument against this.

You set up a somewhat absurd strawman for what Gladwell argued and then tried to lampoon it and make his position look illogical when, in fact, the interpretation you constructed relies on the researchers literally ignoring the most basic of statistics. That needed to be pointed out, lest people buy the strawman and actually get swayed to believe that black people are biologically less intelligent than whites.

/r/politics, /r/atheism, etc, are just cesspools of ignorance as bad as the people they lampoon daily. I'm also having a hard time drumming up sympathy for Gawker - they have consistently and repeatedly proven themselves to be complete unprofessionals, have zero journalistic integrity or credibility, and have some of the worst, borderline libelous "reporting" I've seen on any major blogs.

Quote Examples using Lampoon

They have no problem lampooning 'AAA' games with large advertising budgets if they think the product is lampoon. However, if they enjoy the product they have no problem supporting it either by doing custom content for the developers, which is put off on a specific section on their website and given the disclaimer that it is content paid for by developers. Mike, in his time as a Surface user, has been very explicit about what he enjoyed about the device and what he didn't enjoy. He has also wrote up blog posts about what Microsoft sent him for free or where they sent him and has given his readers full disclosure about his relationship with Microsoft. I think it's rather silly to lampoon a person, based off of an article of him giving a favourable review of a product that you think is bad or dubious.

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