satirize

Verb

satirize (third-person singular simple present satirizes, present participle satirizing, simple past and past participle satirized)

1. (transitive) To make a satire of; to mock.
   • Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different.1910, Charles Shirley Potts, Crime and the treatment of the criminal: Issue 8
   • Nat Habib, the producer‐director at the Scarsdale theater, says that “Flahooley,” which satirizes big business, was in part a victim of the McCarthyism of the times.1979 May 8, Judith A. Handelman, “Play From the 50's ‘Premieres’”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms:

   spoof