as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
a pasquinade of Washington society that features thinly disguised portraits of several political power brokers
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Cutting satire ensues when the girl’s street-smart sister, who believes her sibling is being devoured whole by the 1 percent, intervenes to save her.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025 -
In 1957, Horne starred in Jamaica, a hit Broadway satire that let a glamorous Black woman lead a musical—something rare then and now.—
Sonari Glinton,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The spaghetti example later became well-known enough that Smith parodied it almost a year later in February 2024.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
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Content Creators And Brand Ambassadors Gstaad Guy parades in Loro Piana, and the European Kid parodies luxury culture.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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At that same ceremony, Saturday Night Live — which had veered heavily toward satirizing the Trump White House — enjoyed its best showing in years.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
3 May 2025
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The Fosters launch the campaign on Thursday in a video, satirizing celebrities who want to go unnoticed in public.—
Charlie Carballo,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Morning and afternoon activities are offered every day, and musicians, caricatures artists and pet therapists visit to keep residents entertained.—
Joshua Zatulskis,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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Yet abroad, Germans are still caricatured as Nazis, and the remembrance culture plays a part by overdoing it.—
Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 May 2025
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Gervais also mocked himself during his acceptance speech.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
31 May 2025
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A week later, Rogan mocked Hawass and weighed in again on skeptical theories over who built the pyramids.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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Throughout it all, Danson also got to lampoon himself alongside IRL pal Larry David on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), appearing sporadically in some of the comedy's best episodes.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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The sketch comedy show also lampooned the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ongoing struggles that have caused mass delays at airports and several near collisions between aircraft due to air traffic control outages.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
18 May 2025
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Managers ran through rows of their peers and announced their area’s sales performance, ridiculing poor performers.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2025
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Clinton was ridiculed for his obsession with infrastructure until the numbers proved him out: the canal transformed New York City into an economic powerhouse, and its population surged to more than two hundred thousand.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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That song doesn’t belong in a film that promotes the era’s social fragmentation and repeats fatuous antagonisms — burlesqued by Melissa McCarthy playing the sea world’s villainous white-witch octopus Ursula.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 May 2023
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The seeming callousness with which the dancers burlesque a fourteen-year-old’s death—the breezy way that the dance turns a killing into a sight gag—induces a shiver.—
Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2022
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“Pasquinade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinade. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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