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Meanings of caricature in English

Russian
карикатура
Portuguese
caricato
Spanish
caricaturas
Catalan
caricatura
Wikidata

Rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way.

Related terms
карикатура
Portuguese
caricatura
Catalan
caricatura

A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.

caricatura
Portuguese
fazer caricaturas

Represent in or produce a caricature of.

fazer caricaturas

Humorous or satirical cartoon or drawing.

Usage of caricature in English
1
Her last words to him that morning: a caricature of tough love.
Audrey's door
2
A good decoy is not an exact simile, but a good caricature.
The new yorker
3
This is hardly a caricature of what happens under some modern governments.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
4
Yet replacing one caricature with another does not feel like a solution.
The Guardian
5
It is merely the caricature of one-itmay be of the mountain-peak
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
6
The caricature is widely seen as racist and offensive to Native Americans.
News.com.au
7
Family and friends have alleged Tarantino wrongly portrayed Lee as a caricature.
The Guardian
8
The common caricature of Mr Osborne as a crude neo-Thatcherite is unfair.
The Guardian
9
Sharp appropriated the caricature, and saw Judas personified in his own character.
Sketches of the Covenanters
10
Here we have a good caricature of the fops of the day.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 / With an Introduction upon An...
11
Even the cholera has been made the subject of an itinerant caricature.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 09
12
But it is almost as gross a caricature of the teaching of
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
13
Butt confounds this caricature; he is neither brilliantly talented nor chronically disruptive.
The Guardian
14
That is a caricature of the deliberative dynamic inside the national cabinet.
The Guardian
15
There are certain pictures in American caricature which are wit made visible.
Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"
16
The author sketches it all graphically with a convincing fidelity of caricature.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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