lampoon
noun
a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
had lampooned
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past perfectof lampoon.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The court was told that one man in Leeds had been detained under terrorism powers for holding up a copy of an item in the satirical magazine Private Eye which had lampooned the ban.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
By this time the angry young satirist had metamorphosed into comfortable middle age and become part of the very establishment he had lampooned so effectively 30 years before.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2013
Ovid dares to group him with the laurelled shades of Catullus and Gallus, of whom the former had lampooned the divine Julius and the latter had been exiled by Augustus.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
Phyllida was somewhat embarrassed by the sudden announcement of his relationship to that dreadful Mr. Lovely, who had lampooned the whole of the fashionable world.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
He had lampooned them in verses; he had beaten and cheated them; and yet now, when he was in so close a pinch, he thought there was at least one who might perhaps relent.
From Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) by Robert Louis Stevenson
