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 lampooner, out of delicacy, kept aloof from the poet.
From Rejected Addresses by James Smith
Even his admiring biographers have noticed, with something of a chuckle, the revenge which Perceval, who was the chief object of Plymley's sarcasm, took, without in the least knowing it, on his lampooner.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
How, or in what sense that would satisfy even a lampooner, are moralists as a class the 'betters' in a collation with poets as a class?
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
