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mock-heroic

Syllabification: (mock-he·ro·ic)
Definition of mock-heroic

adjective

  • (of a literary work or its style) imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject.

noun

(often as mock heroics)
  • a burlesque imitation of the heroic character or literary style.

mock-heroic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of mock-heroic in the British & World English dictionary