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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of parody.

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Examples

  • Its really hard not to like a guy who has for the most part embraced his cheese factor and realizes that being parodied is a form of flattery.

    William Shatner Starts SciFi DVD Club 2005

  • Irish music, so much parodied, is not as easy as it looks.

    The Irish Mind 1957

  • The good doctor, who had succeeded his father-in-law here in 1791, was enough of a public character to have his name parodied by Thackeray as Dr. Tickleus.

    Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

  • The good doctor, who had succeeded his father-in-law here in 1791, was enough of a public character to have his name parodied by Thackeray as Dr. Tickleus.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch Leonard Huxley 1896

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • The Y’s showcase was its annual Monday-night lecture series, the Monster Meetings, whose name parodied the weekly “Big Meetings” held at Indianapolis’s all-white Central YMCA.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

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