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: --
The skit brilliantly lampoons upper-class society.
Many celebrities are lampooned on this satirical website.
Before people lampoon hard-working officials and civil servants who gave evidence, they should remember how many other problems and challenges were on officials' plates.
They have lampooned them, traduced them, defamed them and done all kinds of monstrous things to them.
They should not be lampooned as we have seen too often of late.
There have been worse lampoons than that which have not come before the public eye.
Are we happy to be lampooned in such a way?
It is unfair to try to lampoon officers who are unable to answer back.
It is one very easy to criticise and to lampoon.
I think the time has come when we might very well revive in this country the old art of the lampoon.
