parodic
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The company claimed it depicted a deliberately implausible, parodic scenario that bore no resemblance to real airport security procedures.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Writer-director Alex Scharfman makes a worthy attempt at sketching the Leopolds as a parodic version of the real-life Sackler family, but never gets close to conjuring their cold-blooded, dark-hearted evil.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
With its candy colors, canted camera angles and sound-effects balloons, the original series was witty, funny, parodic, satirical, deceptively smart and knowingly dumb and also a legitimate adventure story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
The amorphousness of the series — which zings between parodic edge and epiphanies — might be a function of its peculiar DNA.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023
The Harlot's Progress and The Rake's Progress are alike interesting for the parodic ballad opera pattern of setting new words to familiar tunes.
From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous
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