parody
noun
a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
was parodying
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past progressiveof parody.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In this series and the Moving Picture Show that followed, his speciality was parodying film and television favourites.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
By the time the episode aired, the showrunner says, many viewers presumed the Mattingly character’s arc was parodying the headlines, rather than foreseeing the fluffy kerfuffle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
I was sort of having to learn what the thing was I was parodying.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
It passed me by for years because it looked so much like the kind of interchangeable panel show it was parodying.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2015
Wagner of course was parodying and satirising the pedants of his own day, especially the composers of psalms who could not set a straightforward Bible sentence without making nonsense of it.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
