caricatural

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On “Portnoy’s Complaint,” by Philip Roth: “It is brilliant. But caricatural and pseudo-literary,” with “comic strip characters.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2022

Far from being random, each of these details is part of a caricatural shorthand.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016

In the 1907 “42 Kids,” with its swarm of boys skinny-dipping in the East River, his painterly and caricatural ease collude so effectively that the figures read as cartoons.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2012

Some painters – Chantal Joffe, Elizabeth Peyton – have been inspired by the gawky, wry and caricatural aspects of her work; others by the expressiveness and mystery.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

With a caricatural gesture of disdain, and an off-handed air, this corpulent personage demanded stridently: "Who are these gentlemen?"

From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel