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How to pronounce sendup in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty
Type of caricature, imitation, impersonation

Examples of sendup

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Instead, they've used the financial crisis as fodder for their annual holiday sendup.
From the dailyherald.com
The holiday sendup skewers everything from classic films to gift exchanges.
From the dailyherald.com
It is a sendup of the environmental movement almost as effective as this frigid winter.
From the washingtontimes.com
Gordon overlooks no stereotype in his affectionate sendup of the genre.
From the courier-journal.com
Miss Potter's picture is a sendup of the beauty industry set around New York's Fashion Week.
From the washingtontimes.com
It's a broad sendup of the character, yet Segaller finds real depths.
From the washingtonpost.com
Teacher and actress Elaine Burns repeated there her role of Queen Meg, a sendup of Whitman.
From the sacbee.com
Ducker says it's a sendup of modern hospitals and health care.
From the denverpost.com
Expert casting bolsters this Austen sendup of Gothic literature.
From the orlandosentinel.com
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  • Parody: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
  • A parody (also called send-up, spoof or lampoon), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation. ...