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.
lampooner
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a word derived from
lampoon.
Example Sentences
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Political provocateur, truth-seeker, avid lampooner, outré creator: Nekrasova is calling the shots from all four viewpoints.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
Shelby's painter was Terence Duren, frail, 40, ferocious lampooner of womanhood, an ex-Chicago Art Institute instructor, ex-Greenwich Village freelancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The general lampooner of mankind may find long exercise for his zeal or wit, in the defects of nature, the vexations of life, the follies of opinion, and the corruptions of practice.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
Even the satirist must observe a partial truth and a measure in expressing it, or he sinks down to the virulent lampooner.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
The lampooner, out of delicacy, kept aloof from the poet.
From Rejected Addresses by James Smith
