Verb (used with object) : to lampoon important leaders in the government. From Dictionary.com.
It'll be Jim-dandy when the late-night lampooner returns for the first show of 2011 with Jim Carrey taking on hosting duties. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011] Reference
But Curb is indeed an equal-opportunity lampooner. From Wordnik.com. [E! Online (US) - Top Stories] Reference
This lampooner had the honour of being hanged at Rome for his defamatory publications. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Parenteral suavity; generic ultram Aftersaccharification lampooner breakfast fem, microanalysis austenization. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines from World Press Review] Reference
Of course, there are other factors why Silverman has managed to carve out a career as a lampooner of social stereotypes. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
How, or in what sense that would satisfy even a lampooner, are moralists as a class the 'betters' in a collation with poets as a class?. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
Such was the man, ushered into whose presence, Horace, the reckless lampooner and satirist, found himself embarrassed, and at a loss for words. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
We are naturally displeasd with an unknown critic, as the ladies are with the lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark, and know not where to fasten our revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Dedication] Reference
Whether this be a mere figure of speech used by that scurrilous lampooner, or whether it indicates that the work was circulated by the religious professors of that period, I cannot determine. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.] Reference
Yet, to the last, the wretched man, gambler, lampooner, cheat, forger, as he was, retained his affection and veneration for Addison, and recorded those feelings in the last lines which he traced before he hid himself from infamy under London Bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
This is the only exception which I shall make to the general rule I have prescribed myself, of attacking multitudes; since every honest man ought to look upon himself as in a natural state of war with the libeller and lampooner, and to annoy them wherever they fall in his way. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
In the second Dialogue he took some liberty with one of the Foxes among others; which Fox in a reply to Lyttelton, took an opportunity of repaying, by reproaching him with the friendship of a lampooner, who scattered his ink without fear or decency, and against whom he hoped the resentment of the Legislature would quickly be discharged. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
In the second dialogue he took some liberty with one of the Foxes, among others; which Fox, in a reply to Lyttelton, took an opportunity of repaying, by reproaching him with the friendship of a lampooner, who scattered his ink without fear or decency, and against whom he hoped the resentment of the legislature would quickly be discharged. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference
A bludgeon, in a bookseller's shop, because the author of the "Baviad and Mæviad" had presumed to castigate the great lampooner of the age. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
How can we admit into a house which has formed such alliances as these a woman who is the widow of a hunchback singer, a mere lampooner, a man whose name is a byword through Europe? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
But hold, she cries, lampooner! have a care. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
"But hold," she cries, "lampooner! have a care. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2] Reference
“But hold,” she cries, “lampooner, have a care. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
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