persiflage

This reader's only real quibble with Alfred Hitchcock is the author's insistence on using such words as "threnody," "persiflage" and "appurtenances" throughout the text.

An entire popular tradition of persiflage organically supports the comic genre.

We don't get a satisfactory answer but rather a flurry of persiflage about how "it is less ironic than predictable that in French, boite is a feminine gender noun." It is also less ironical than predictable that a present-day academic would assimilate the grammatical concept of gender to the biological category of sex.

It was a mirror of petit bourgeois behavior, but more as a kind of persiflage than an attack.

It communicates as a well-rehearsed protocol that comes close to persiflage: "We know ...

Interpretes par Sanhouri Makram et Mounir Ammari, aides dans une figuration intelligente par Walid Daghesni, les differents courants qui s'affrontent pour definir un modele de gouvernance dans la Tunisie d'aujourd'hui, sont passes en revue dans le persiflage et la derision.

First, the persiflage -- Robert wanted to start a "Letters to the Editor" column to discuss local politics.

As you may have guessed, all this persiflage is leading up to another non-Olympic event: the stroll.

Why do we have to battle through this persiflage of jargon?" - Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

He dismissed it curtly, with a wave of his hand, saying "harmless persiflage, harmless persiflage." I believe I got a "C" in the course.

(37) Moreover, of the examples I have examined, three provide clear evidence of the use of parody, travesty or persiflage. (38)

To such persiflage, Emile Zola's measured response seems apropos: "The fate of animals," he wrote, "is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous." And of course, just as not all vegetarians are saints, not all vegephobes are psychopathic muttonheads who believe that Whoppers grow in burger patches.