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• So it ends up a caricature rather than a depthy portrayal?2014, David A. Ensminger, Mavericks of Sound, page 24. From the entry depthy
• At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120. From the entry bop
• A yellow, viraginous caricature of Hillary Clinton leered out from a black background.2008 May 18, Peggy Orenstein, “The Hillary Lesson”, in New York Times. From the entry viraginous
• The character of Hank Bully, the coach driver, is a caricature of actor Wallace Beery.2008 October 24, Wikipedia contributors, “La Diligence (comics)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 247373934. From the entry coach driver
• God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture.2007, Ellen Santilli Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God. From the entry Man Upstairs
• He was this Kraftwerkian techno-creature, sort of a caricature of the future.2004, Phoebe Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, page 47. From the entry Kraftwerkian
• Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108. From the entry goating
• In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 131. From the entry miserly
• Only "right-to-lifers" caricature the feminist position as dogmatic "proabortionism" or some crazed baby-hatred.1985, Rosalind P. Petchesky, Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom, Verso, published 1985, page 374. From the entry proabortionism
• “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said.2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08…. From the entry homunculus
• People sometimes caricature law generally, originalists in particular.2025 October 16, Ross Douthat, quoting Amy Coney Barrett, “Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry originalist
• Murray said that he matched personalities of his characters to the various animals in the series to form a social caricature.2024 May 29, Brie Hoffler, “Chaos Ride: Episode 2 APK”, in tialalnafi (Usenet). From the entry unstable
• Biden may be old, but he is far from the debilitated, weak-minded caricature drawn of him by right-wing media.2024 March 8, David Horsey, “‘Uncommitted’ voters have to face political reality”, in Seattle Times. From the entry weak-minded
• There is no weapon so effective as mockery and Gillray's vicious caricatures did more to demythologise Napoleon than anything else.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 273. From the entry demythologise
• Maddy watched the chemise-lifter execute her caricatured saunter out of frame and back to her cell for the 8 a.m. lock-up.2012, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 114. From the entry chemise lifter
• Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle.2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry eagleback
• Perhaps surprisingly for a writer so easily caricatured as a dry Marxist theoretician, Berger excels in such sensual descriptions.2008 January 9, Sam Jordison, “Looking back at the Booker: John Berger”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry finger-pointing
• Almost human in appearance, yet not quite, the characters in 3-D computer animations are more disturbing than overt caricatures.2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang. From the entry uncanny valley
• The origins of the loathsome Dursleys come directly from snobbish Dahlesque caricatures of people of limited culture and intelligence.2002, Julia Eccleshare, A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels, page 36. From the entry Dahlesque
• Dawson, for one, is on the right wavelength, goosing his buttery game-show host persona into a caricature of unctuous evil.2000, Scott von Doviak, Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film. From the entry buttery
• Nevertheless, caricatured as "diaperology" the Russian swaddling hypothesis did much to discredit the culture-and-personality approach in academic circles.1999, Susan Hegeman, Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry swaddling hypothesis
• It is in this context of Irishphobia that the racist caricature of the drunken, violent, ignorant Paddy was established.1996, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Ernest Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, page 182. From the entry Irishphobia
• Detractors may caricature postmodern paleoorthodox consciousness as precritical.1992, Thomas C. Oden, Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America & Russia, →ISBN. From the entry paleoorthodox
• A caricature of the armchair linguist is something like this.1991, Charles J. Fillmore, ““Corpus Linguistics” or “Computer-aided armchair linguistics””, in Werner Winter, editor, Directions in Corpus…. From the entry armchair linguistics
• Hermesians declare that what was condemned at Rome was not Hermes' teaching, but a libellous caricature of it.1951, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics - Volumes 5-6, page 625. From the entry Hermesian
• That’s the very caricature that ‘bimbocore’ – a recent social media trend — is using to reclaim ‘hyper-femininity’ through Barbie doll-esque fashion and beauty.2023, Anita Bhagwandas, Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, Blink Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry bimbocore
• The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club. From the entry gobsmackingly
• Churchill was a fat cigared caricature in Burnfort, the war remembered as a shortage of tea, Tomeen’s triumphant bicycle ride with two pounds of it.2021, Martina Evans, American Mules, Carcanet Press, →ISBN. From the entry cigared
• For the last fortnight, Trump has presented himself to the world as the caricature of the ugly American: loud, boorish and ill-informed.2017 June 2, Dana Milbank, “Trump, the caricature of the ugly American, demeans us all”, in Washington Post, retrieved 17 Jul 2017. From the entry Ugly American
• They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination.2015, Herb Payson, Blown Away, page 115. From the entry dogward
• This caricature called economic man was not only completely self-centered, he was also entirely rational in all his decisions, whether consuming or investing—a veritable Mr.2010, William McDonald Wallace, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong, Santa Barbara…. From the entry Spock
• On the other hand, American Indian groups that have lobbied for years to drop the beet-red, wide-eyed logo, say it is a racially insensitive caricature.1993 July 2, AP [Associated Press], “Sports People: Baseball: Chief Wahoo’s Domain Is Still Turbulent”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry beet-red
• With Chevy Chase, whose caricature of suburban schlubbiness is starting to look like less of a caricature, plus Beverly D’Angelo and Dana Hill.1985 August 20, “Film strips”, in Owen Gleiberman, compiler, The Boston Phoenix, page 42. From the entry schlubbiness
• SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . .1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171. From the entry unalive
• Luckily, the king was being portrayed in “Queenist” caricatures as a haughty and lustful fop bursting out of waistcoats and breeches with his current mistress fawning at his feet.2020, May McGoldrick, Highland Sword. From the entry Queenist
• "Dawkins was a strong advocate of what became known as ultra-Darwinism, which (as a caricature at least) attempted to explain all of evolution with respect to genes."2017 April 17, Phil Madgwick, “Totalitarian Genesmanship I: on Superman’s sperm-count”, in Medium, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2019. From the entry ultra-darwinism
• As understandable as his annoyance about this malign misuse of his sketch may be, both ways of interpreting his caricature remain open, one being undeniably germanophobic.2006, Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann, Cultural Studies in the EFL Classroom, page 162. From the entry germanophobic

Meaning of caricature

1. noun A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
2. noun A grotesque misrepresentation.
3. noun In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.

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How do you use caricature in a sentence?

Caricature is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Lo Ching-chong (羅慶忠), better known as L.C.C., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001.”

What is a short sentence with caricature?

“Detractors may caricature postmodern paleoorthodox consciousness as precritical.”

What does caricature mean?

Caricature means a pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.