Burlesquing [verb]

Definition of Burlesquing:

ridicule, make fun of

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Sentence/Example of Burlesquing:

Fletcher's burlesquing Shakspere is no argument against their having written together.

It is not Georges Fourest burlesquing in a caf; Fourest's guffaw is magnificent, he is hardly satirical.

Melinda walked mockingly side by side with her, burlesquing her walk and serious face.

Some of our pious authors appear not to have been aware that they were burlesquing religion.

Again, too, he followed his original with some care, burlesquing rather in detail than on broad lines.

At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.

Ah, it is the unique art and the martial music you find entertaining--or were you burlesquing a Communist meeting?

The puppet play was used as a means of burlesquing the legitimate theater and drama.

The burlesquing of idols and idolatry always afforded a ready mark for the sarcasm of the prophets.

But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies.