Used in a Sentence

parodied

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for parodied.

Editorial note

By the time most viewers today see Casablanca they'll have already seen most of the scenes ripped-offed, parodied, homaged, or referenced.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To make a parody of something.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of parodied gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To make a parody of something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for parodied.

verb

(transitive) To make a parody of something.

Example sentences

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By the time most viewers today see Casablanca they'll have already seen most of the scenes ripped-offed, parodied, homaged, or referenced.

2

Most of the socially liberal Americans consider it just as ridiculous and it is regularly parodied in our media all the time.

3

For comparison, read Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street, a satire of American small-town mentality, and you'll find a very similar mentality being parodied.

4

If I wrote a children's song and someone parodied it with sexual content, I'd be miffed.

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Political tap-dancing has been parodied for generations and that still happens.

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That video always get trotted out and it's very strange, it's just a rehash of the technoutopia that was parodied in The Jetsons, 50 years ago.

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It's so common that it's widely discussed and parodied.

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The thing being parodied has no subtlety either.

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Heck, I've even done it in the early days, and it was super awkward and I'm glad it is getting parodied on Silicon Valley.

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Anything can be parodied by exaggeration.

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Greek philosophers parodied the confusion of quantitative and qualitative thought by asking how many grains of sand we needed to add together before we had a heap.

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At the time, the reactionary corporate rhetoric parodied the position of consumer advocates as requiring businesses to cover coffee cups with long elaborate disclaimers about how coffee could possibly be hot.

Quote examples

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South Park parodied the grow-first-monetize-later gambit in the "underpants gnomes" episode: 1) collect underpants 2)...?

2

This is parodied pretty well in an animated Dilbert episode with "Chronic Cubicle Syndrome".

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In episode "201" (S14E06) all the celebrities South Park has parodied over the years collectively sued South Park town for making fun of them.

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Common enough for it to be parodied in a 25 year old episode of the Simpsons ("Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish").

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use parodied in a sentence?

By the time most viewers today see Casablanca they'll have already seen most of the scenes ripped-offed, parodied, homaged, or referenced.

What does parodied mean?

(transitive) To make a parody of something.

What part of speech is parodied?

parodied is commonly used as verb.