The intentional or inadvertent parodying or exaggeration of one's usual behaviour or speech.
自我嘲弄；自嘲
they are soft-spoken and clean-cut to the point of self-parody
他们轻声细语、直截了当得有些自嘲了。
Example sentencesExamples
He has tip-toed to the edge of self-parody and beat an honourable retreat.
Now, almost a decade later, his words sound like self-parody.
By the end, self-parody was his only reliable source of income.
At times their ignorance degenerated into self-parody.
His deft portrayal of English stoicism and self-parody brings a welcome humour and poignancy to the production.
Isn't satirizing self-parody akin to shooting fish in a petri dish?
As a result, she made innuendo and self-parody into a fine art, writing the scripts of five out of her nine Hollywood movies.
It is funny, as unintentional self-parody often is.
On second thought, Al may have a career in self-parody.
Unlike many actors of his generation, he has respected and honed his talent rather than squandered it indiscriminately or succumbed to the rigor mortis of self-parody.
It would have enabled Webber to pull off the magnificent feat of taking self-parody to the edge of the cliff and then running right back to tell a creative story.
They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
We may feel that we have heard it before, but not as if we are reading self-parody.
As with the late cinema of Pasolini, it's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
Perhaps there is even an element of self-parody.
I wouldn't have characterized it as self-parody.
In either case, this backfires because his fans may feel robbed of witnessing his all-conquering self-parody, but I digress.
Never before has Apple soared to such heights of self-parody!
To make an album like this you've got to have lived music for more than 20 years and yet never settled for clichés or self-parody.
Continue peddling misery and you risk self-parody.
Definition of self-parody in US English:
self-parody
nounˈˌself ˈperədē
The intentional or inadvertent parodying or exaggeration of one's usual behavior or speech.
自我嘲弄；自嘲
they are soft-spoken and clean-cut to the point of self-parody
他们轻声细语、直截了当得有些自嘲了。
Example sentencesExamples
Perhaps there is even an element of self-parody.
His deft portrayal of English stoicism and self-parody brings a welcome humour and poignancy to the production.
Never before has Apple soared to such heights of self-parody!
At times their ignorance degenerated into self-parody.
It would have enabled Webber to pull off the magnificent feat of taking self-parody to the edge of the cliff and then running right back to tell a creative story.
Unlike many actors of his generation, he has respected and honed his talent rather than squandered it indiscriminately or succumbed to the rigor mortis of self-parody.
Continue peddling misery and you risk self-parody.
Isn't satirizing self-parody akin to shooting fish in a petri dish?
It is funny, as unintentional self-parody often is.
He has tip-toed to the edge of self-parody and beat an honourable retreat.
By the end, self-parody was his only reliable source of income.
Now, almost a decade later, his words sound like self-parody.
We may feel that we have heard it before, but not as if we are reading self-parody.
To make an album like this you've got to have lived music for more than 20 years and yet never settled for clichés or self-parody.
On second thought, Al may have a career in self-parody.
In either case, this backfires because his fans may feel robbed of witnessing his all-conquering self-parody, but I digress.
They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
I wouldn't have characterized it as self-parody.
As with the late cinema of Pasolini, it's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
As a result, she made innuendo and self-parody into a fine art, writing the scripts of five out of her nine Hollywood movies.