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Satirize (verb) means to use humour or exaggeration to criticise someone or something.

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To use humour or exaggeration to criticise someone or something.

"But Reitman, who also coscripted the film (with Sheldon Turner) from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham." — Peter Howell, Clooney at his funny best finds first-class isn't tops (2009)

"It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap." — Daniel M. Gold, The Early Years of Rock, Later Than Previously Thought (2007)

"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." — Judith A. Handelman, Play From the 50's ‘Premieres’ (1979)

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