0 a piece of writing, a drawing, etc. that criticizes a famous person or a public organization in a humorous way, allowing their or its bad qualities to be seen and making them or it seem stupid:
1 to criticize a famous person or a public organization in a piece of writing, a drawing, etc., in a humorous way, allowing their or its bad qualities to be seen and making them or it seem stupid:
Many celebrities are lampooned on this satirical website.
The skit brilliantly lampoons upper-class society.
He was lampooned in the conservative press.
It's a cartoon lampooning the tangle of traffic that gridlocks midtown streets.
During his two terms as president, he was often lampooned for his love of junk food.
Unlike serious opera, comic opera was supposed morally to instruct its audience by lampooning or making ridiculous the vices of its protagonists.
We might also ask: does this cartoon lampoon the husband, or does it critique the wife?
It was a tract for the time, not history but a lampoon without pretence to either balance or accuracy.
During the past twenty years, this movement has become a major industry, welcomed by many and lampooned by others, and often the cause of bitter argument.
State authority is mercilessly satirised, the clergy is lampooned, and the convicts - that potential pool of political resistance are presented as passive at best, degenerate at worst.
