lampooning

lam-poon-ing

verb

Publicly ridiculing someone or something using sharp satire, caricature, or mockery.

"The cartoonist was lampooning the politician's latest gaffe."

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Synonyms: satirize, lampoon, satirise, mockery, takeoff, sendup, travesty, send-up, burlesque, parody, pasquinade, put-on