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- adjective Of, related to, or having the characteristics of
parody .
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Examples
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He isn't only torn between the male beloved ("lord of my love", the fair angel, more lovely and temperate than a summer's day) and the black-browed female whose eyes are nothing like the sun and whose breath "reeks" (the contrast between these extremes seems almost parodistic).
Love in literature 2011
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"Take This Job and Shove It" wouldn't get half the laughs it does if it was a sloppy, parodistic country song, instead of a real, solid, well-crafted one.
Can you detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist? Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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It's a shame the lesser, often self-parodistic '60s-'70s series is what lots of people think of.
Have You Bought Yours? Bill Crider 2009
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"Take This Job and Shove It" wouldn't get half the laughs it does if it was a sloppy, parodistic country song, instead of a real, solid, well-crafted one.
Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I suspect, however, that this minor issue will be sorted out on tour when the show is lengthened, and perhaps a couple of Minchin's self-parodistic songs are added.
Archive 2008-08-01 annawaits 2008
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People made phantasy uniforms based on the French uniforms and made parodistic military dances all under the disguise of the Carnival celebrations.
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William Kristol, who cannot write "get milk, rye bread" on a Post-It without doing so in bad faith, has delivered of himself a paragraph, in his quickly-becoming-self-parodistic column in the New York Times, which raises the envelope of dishonesty and stretches the bar of disingenuousness in exciting new dimensions:
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Unlike in a comparable situation only a couple of years ago, the majority of commentators failed to see the highly parodistic and artistic nature of
Archive 2008-11-30 2008
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I suspect, however, that this minor issue will be sorted out on tour when the show is lengthened, and perhaps a couple of Minchin's self-parodistic songs are added.
Bitesize Fringe Review #2: Tim Minchin - Ready For This? annawaits 2008
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On a bizarre, digressive note, there was a parodistic edition of _Hellboy_ comic book stories partially authored by Mike Mignola which feature Hellboy, Jr., as an apprentice devil.
How to make a comedy about Hitler. Ann Althouse 2007
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