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  • adverb In a parodic way.

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Examples

  • Of the three small female parts in the movie, two are briefly glimpsed prostitutes while the third is a parodically butch feminist-type who Reedus punches in the face while the opening credits are still rolling.

    'The Boondock Saints II': A cult hit gets a second shot | EW.com 2009

  • It's as if someone decided to create a parodically stereotypical design studio and re-release a reverently classic game.

    A Complex Shadow SVGL 2009

  • This would say very little about anything except the collective political talent of Democrats, which in recent history has been almost parodically low.

    Matthew Yglesias » Abramowitz: House Dems Doomed Even If Political Climate Changes 2010

  • The long minor-key "Frere Jacques" episode that starts the third movement yielded to a melody that sounded almost parodically lugubrious, with a sob, possibly unintentional, in the brass.

    NSO and Valcuha come through loud and soft an clear 2010

  • The scene was intended to invoke and parodically recreate the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr., an African-American man who had been murdered months earlier outside of Jasper, Texas after being chained to the back of a moving pickup truck by three white men.

    Federal Decisions 2007

  • Our potential sympathy for Betsey--a thwarted ice skater dominated by her roving and parodically patriarchal husband--rapidly wanes as we watch her abandon her son and commodify her daughter, right down to the "Heaven Scent Bliss Rampike Doll" 477.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • The fact that Roberto Alagna speaks English with an almost parodically sexy French accent doesn't help.

    Christina Patterson: 'Opera Was My Secret Love': Interview with Roberto Alagna 2009

  • She's introduced as a repellently bloated ogre of a woman: . . . who meets a farcical end: . . . and comes back as the "Lunch Lady," about as parodically ridiculous a name and concept for a slasher as could be imagined: . . . and that's how she's been depicted up until the monthly series:

    Archive 2009-05-31 2009

  • Whatever the process, Notes on a Scandal, Heller's account of an almost parodically spinsterish North London teacher who befriends a glamorous younger colleague who has been having an affair with one of her pupils, was hailed as a "brilliant", "gripping", "sinister" study in loneliness and obsession.

    Christina Patterson: Interview With Zoe Heller: 'I End Up Loathing Myself' 2009

  • Our potential sympathy for Betsey--a thwarted ice skater dominated by her roving and parodically patriarchal husband--rapidly wanes as we watch her abandon her son and commodify her daughter, right down to the "Heaven Scent Bliss Rampike Doll" 477.

    My Sister, My Love 2009

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