caricature
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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
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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
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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
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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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