Definition of "mock-heroic" [mock-heroic]

• A satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or style. (noun)

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• "The row which has led to the Arts Council suspending payments to the Poetry Society would be the perfect subject for one of his mock-heroic epics."
• "He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair."
• "They sally forth, mock-heroic and quixotic, as if nothing was unusual or out of the ordinary, clueless that their sense of proportion is way out of whack."