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caricature

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


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With her bright-eyed inquisitiveness bordering on tactlessness, and Harry Potter T-shirt, Cheryl-Ann comes close to being a caricature of a crass tourist, and is treated as such with cool disdain by Orla.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Like all of those after-school specials, there’s a distinct element of gratitude that helps the film transcend accusations of corniness or caricature.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Miranda is a riff on Vogue’s former editor in chief Anna Wintour, who used to be irritated by her caricature but eventually came around.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

There are grinning skulls; a ghoulish, blue-skinned woman with glowing yellow eyes; a caricature of a great, horned animal; illegible graffiti signatures; advertisements for local bands and theater productions.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

He was known for his caricatures of politicians, including Putin, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Their testimonials on our website demonstrate that they are real, complex human beings, not caricatures.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

Watching caricatures of men on TV can be entertaining, but it doesn’t reflect reality.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Characters are caricatures, be it a villain that feels plucked from a cartoon western, complete with a purring raccoon for a sidekick, to a greedy wannabe politician of a bank manager.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

My speech that night gave me a chance to humanize myself, explaining who I was in my own voice, slaying the caricatures and stereotypes with my own words.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They are caricatured as tourists, or cowboys, or worse—Ted Lasso.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 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

Hegseth’s bravado has also been caricatured on “Saturday Night Live,” which opened two weeks in a row with a satirical portrayal of him as angry, dimwitted and hyped up on the violence of war.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

Shock horror in a political campaign, you'll be amazed that the two women have both been caricatured.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2025

He would mumble sotto voce, pausing now and then to emit a murmur that students caricatured as “nim-nim-nim.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Forster and George Orwell set stories in British India while caricaturing South Asians or casting them in supporting roles.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

“But I promise you that dismissing or caricaturing these kinds of voters — our fellow citizens — is not the way to win them back. And there’s no path to victory without winning them back.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2021

It was for the Brain Club that she wrote "The Socio-Maniac," a cantata caricaturing fashionable society.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott




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