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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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                            Caricature through the time
                            Caricature across language varieties
                            Ireland
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                            United Kingdom
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                            United States of America
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