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noun

Caricature n.

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. (Formerly written caricatura) "The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature." "A grotesque caricature of virtue."

verb

Caricature v. t. (past & past part. caricatured; pres. part. caricaturing) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque. "He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand."

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Etymology of 'Caricature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Caricature" Quotes from Famous Books

... pin she wore attached to her collar. The pin itself was a carefully wrought but cruel caricature of an awkward buglike creature. A small ruby set in the center of its face ...

— Blind Spot • Bascom Jones

... street he found himself by the side of Miss Van Tuyn, behind Lady Sellingworth and Ambrose Jennings, who were really a living caricature as they proceeded through the night towards Shaftesbury Avenue. The smallness of Jennings, accentuated by his bat-like cloth cloak, his ample sombrero and fantastically long stick, made Lady Sellingworth look like a moving tower as she walked at his side, like a leaning tower ...

— December Love • Robert Hichens

... degree to which any story can be acted. In the justifiable desire to bring a large number of children into the action one must not lose sight of the sanity and propriety of the presentation. For example, one must not make a ridiculous caricature, where a picture, however crude, is the intention. Personally represent only such things as are definitely and dramatically personified in the story. If a natural force, the wind, for example, is represented as talking and acting like a human being in the story, it can be imaged ...

— Stories to Tell to Children • Sara Cone Bryant

... couplets of the eighteenth century manner, and strung together fantastic rhymes as a mode of aiding his boy in tasks which tried the memory. He was a dexterous draughtsman, and of his amateur handiwork in portraiture and caricature—sometimes produced, as it were, instinctively, with a result that was unforeseen—much remains to prove his keen eye and his skill with the pencil. Besides the curious books which he eagerly collected, he also gathered together many prints—those ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... avoided meeting him, did not wish to speak to him, felt, indeed, that she was perhaps using him a little unfairly in turning his theatre to her own ends, forcing herself to accept it in order to make things easier for Charles, to whom she used to go with a most vivid caricature of Sir ...

— Mummery - A Tale of Three Idealists • Gilbert Cannan

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