Of this kind we have many anecdotes on record; but none more poignant than the following:--Benserade was caned for lampooning the Duc d'Epernon.
Dorset, lampooning Edward Howard, has the following lines: Whence Does all this mighty mass of dullness spring, Which in such loads thou to the stage dost bring?
Thus the older poets were distinguished as writers of heroic or of lampooning verse.
The appropriate metre was also here introduced; hence the measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being that in which people lampooned one another.
After some tuition from the family priest, he passed to a school at Twyford, where he is said to have been flogged for lampooning the master.
A passage from the Epistle lampooning Aylmer, Bishop of London, and a sample each of Pap with a Hatchet and the Almond, will show the general style.
And I must add, I should be sorry to think Dryden was accessary to lampooning persons, to whom he had offered the incense of his verse.
The able opportunist Sir Anthony St Leger, who was accused by one party of opposing the Reformation and by the other of lampooning the Sacrament, continued to rule during the early days of Edward VI.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lampooning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
