satirized
Meaning
of Satirize
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Frank Zappa satirized the line in the song "Be in My Video", noting as well "atomic light".
In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.).
Popular culture * Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System in particular) with a skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine.
In fact, Friz Freleng satirized this phenomenon when he directed You Ought To Be in Pictures (1940).
He also satirized student political groups.
He wrote to Mann in 1785 that "as there are continually allusions to parliamentary speeches and events, they are often obscure to me till I get them explained; and besides, I do not know several of the satirized heroes even by sight".