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caricature

noun as in exaggerated description in writing, drawing

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This is not intended to be an art book by any means, yet only one image shows his caricatures.

You’re literally a caricature of an old man losing his hearing.

Hulu extended the story line of Margaret Atwood’s antifeminist dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale by remaking its enslaved heroine as a quippy caricature.

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It’s a series that created the “Friendship” and “Babality” finishing moves, cheeky features that ensure the games never take themselves too seriously, and a reminder that these fighters are all cartoon caricatures.

Good conflict can be stressful and heated, but it doesn’t collapse into caricature.

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Finally, America will have to accept Bill Cosby as a many-sided man, rather than a much-loved pop-culture caricature.

She died before they started shooting season two, and an unflattering caricature was included immediately.

Yet Dr. Phil allowed Kelli Stapleton to turn her daughter into an ugly caricature on his show.

I enjoyed her as purely a villain, even if she was somewhat of caricature.

The Alliance for a Strong America site is like a caricature of what liberals said about Keep America Safe.

Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer.

His look of consternation was exaggerated into a most comical caricature, in order to hide how much of it was real.

A caricature grotesque and impish, and yet one that no human being could mistake—a caricature by the hand of a master!

The uncle was always horrible; he was one of the very ugliest of Spaniards; he was a brutal caricature of the national type.

I have made it a caricature of a superhuman ass I know—Tomlinson—who thinks he can decorate.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to caricature, such as: cartoon, farce, parody, satire, burlesque, and distortion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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