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caricature

[kar-i-kuh-cher, -choor] / ˈkær ɪ kə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər /


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It’s as if the director couldn’t bear to allow the figure to be anything more than a caricature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Pattinson portrays Hansen as a caricature of himself, accentuating the journalist’s unmistakable vocal cadence to remove any distance between “To Catch a Predator” and the man behind the show.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Forget the tired caricature of Europe as a low-growth value trap,” said strategists led by Gerry Fowler.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

He has less patience for commentators who seek to debunk originalism by measuring its practitioners against a caricature of the method.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He looks smaller, too, more vulnerable, a caricature of himself.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Artist William Richardson had no connection to Aberfan, with his skills being used most often on the pier where he sketched caricatures of visitors and celebrities performing in town.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Edgeworth, who had used similar caricatures in other stories, was moved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Part of that shorthand has been knowing what caricatures come second nature for specific cast members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

From there, he rose through the ranks of the company, taking charge of an office where his portraits and keenly observed caricatures of colleagues were prominently displayed.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

I would hope that at a school like Amsterdam Heights, these roles would be studied and exposed, that we'd create scripts that dismantle these caricatures.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

All of the king’s men were experienced soldiers; none were fools or the moronic redcoats so often caricatured in American mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

"Magyar will want, as he did during the campaign, not to be caricatured as being a pawn of Brussels; do not expect him to say yes to everything," said an EU diplomat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

These giant, caricatured figures danced and moved through the ceremony alongside dancers and performers, offering a surreal, almost carnival-like nod to classical music’s place in Italian culture.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

But in this case, critics and social media users from Kerala and beyond have called out the film for its caricatured depiction of the state, particularly Sundari.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

The best man’s speech can provide a caricatured instance of decorum misfiring.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Instead of caricaturing how firms set prices, the commission should grapple with how the practice actually works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

In a different sequence, our ensemble characters take turns reading an online screed caricaturing billionaires as yacht-bound playboys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

By 2017, Saturday Night Live was caricaturing Ms Trump in a mock advertisement for a perfume called "Complicit."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023

But students, their families and the public are ill-served by the caricaturing of an American college education as an economically questionable proposition when the opposite is true.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

The French are fond of caricaturing English dandies, and they do it with great success.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis


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