Crossword-Solution: PARODIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Parodies | pl. | of Parody |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PARODIES | anagram | DIASPORE |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PARODIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Comic travesties | 1 answer |
| Irreverent writings | 1 answer |
| Mad pieces | 1 answer |
| Mocking imitations | 1 answer |
| P.D.Q. Bach's "Sanka Cantata" and such | 1 answer |
| The "Barry Trotter" books, et al. | 1 answer |
| Weird Al Yankovic works | 1 answer |
| satirises | 1 answer |
| Take-offs. | 4 answers |
| Spoofs. | 5 answers |
| Mimes | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PARODIES (5)
Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody.
The “bulls” he had recognized from the ape’s crude description as the grotesque parodies upon humanity who inhabit the ruins of Opar.
The Dream, as I now know, is not best served by making parodies of it, and it does not greatly matter after all whether a book be an epic or a directory.
Between them and the beasts behind me there was little choice, but at least there was a doubt as to the reception these grotesque parodies on humanity would accord me, while there was none as to the fate which awaited me beneath the grinning fangs of my fierce pursuers.
All night long, he brushed by single persons passing downward—beggarly women of the street, great, weary, muddy labourers, poor scarecrows of men, pale parodies of women—but all drowsy and weary like himself, and all single, and all brushing against him as they passed.
Quotes with PARODIES (3)
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who h…
How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with “Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules”? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and Fed Ex parodies of self-serving comm…
As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on the writer's interests. It represented the glory and ideology of the French aristocracy. It provided a symbolic critique, with utopian connotations, of the aristocratic hierarchy, largely within the aristocracy itself and from the female viewpoint. It introduced the norms and values of the bourgeois civilizing process as more reasonable an…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1974–2020).