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Definition of "parodic" [pa•rod•ic]

  • Of, related to, or having the characteristics of parody. (adjective)

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Use "parodic" in a sentence
  • "Like all great satire, Café Flesh stands in parodic opposition to the very generic forms out of which it evolved."
  • "What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects."
  • "There is no doubt that the copying in the MA GOP's ad far exceeds what even DeVore did, and, it seems to me, that fact more than compensates for any possibility of the MA GOP's ad having slightly more of a "parodic" quality than did DeVore's "November" ad."
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