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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 Williams, Theodore C.

Being told that somebody had lampooned him, he said, "Very well, I'll Lamb-pun him."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

On the evening of the following day, Mr. Otis went into a coffee-house where John Robinson, one of the commissioners whom he had lampooned, was sitting.

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark