burlesque
noun
an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
burlesquely
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a word derived from
burlesque.
Example Sentences
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Aghast she observes him presenting the Prince Regent in a hundred burlesquely improper parts; and it is a discreet generation indeed which remembers Coriolanus addressing the Plebeians and forgets The Fat in the Fire.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
When the event was an unlucky one, the song was a burlesquely pathetic complaint, and always with a vein of raillery running through it.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
All of which, burlesquely written as if to a Czar by a constitutionalist, was accepted by the Mormon people as in no way absurd in its tone as coming from one American citizen to another!
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as in a medley, from this couplet to— "And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils."
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cp. also 128 and the spirited epic fragment burlesquely used in 108.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
