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caricature

noun as in exaggerated description in writing, drawing

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These negotiations of race and class were later reflected in the signage for Whitten’s Workroom 27: a sharply dressed man in the style of a blackface caricature beneath the words “Spoony Bill’s.”

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His case for it, which includes a caricature of Calvinism, is unconvincing.

The media routinely caricatures evangelical support for Israel as a function of their eschatology.

The way American newspapers caricatured his portly build and bald head, portraying him like some stubby supervillain sprung from the pages of one of their ludicrous comic books.

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In 2010, a Sun News article imagined Martin as a cartoon superhero, “in tights and a cape with the caricature of a microscope emblazoned across his chest.”

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