He seems fleshless, bloodless; he might almost be a black man's parody of how a clean-cut white man moves. It is twice blessed—it blesses him who earns, and those who give, to parody the words of Shakspeare. A mockery of a government—a disgrace to the office pretended to be held—a parody on the position assumed. As to Moussorgskys music, it may go to the devil for all I care: it is the commonest, lowest parody of music. To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
With the perfume of the roses into the open window came the stench of this hideous parody , as if in mockery. In art, music, or literature, a satire that mimics the style of its object. New Word List Word List. Read More.
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Follow us. Choose a dictionary. Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English. Imitating the way someone talks or writes is a parody.
Broken down into its Greek roots, it's para for "beside," and ode as in "song," which forms paroidia for a "burlesque song or poem. Here are some examples of the word:. When there's parity , things are even-steven. Parity means equality. It even has Latin roots in par , which means, of course, equal.
If a scale is balanced, there is parity. They word parody probably has more fun than parity , which just likes to even things out.
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