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/kˈɛrəkətʃər/ Listen

noun

Caricature n.

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. (Formerly written caricatura) "The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature." "A grotesque caricature of virtue."

verb

Caricature v. t. (past & past part. caricatured; pres. part. caricaturing) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque. "He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand."

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Etymology of 'Caricature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Caricature" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Mannersley in the nearest approach to familiarity that was consistent with the reserve of this eminent divine. I looked at him inquiringly. Although scrupulously correct in attire, his features always had a singular resemblance to the national caricature known as "Uncle Sam," but with the humorous expression left out. Softly stroking his goatee with three fingers, he began condescendingly: "You are, I think, more or less familiar with the characteristics and customs of the Spanish as exhibited ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... something profane in such familiar handling of life and death. Art has no business with real graveclothes when she wants tragic drapery—has she? It was too much altogether like a bull fight. There's a caricature at the shop windows of the effect produced, the pit protecting itself with multitudinous umbrellas from the tears of the boxes. This play is by Alexandre Dumas fils—and is worthy by its talent of Alexandre ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... as I had often before seen her, perched on the river's banks, her face as red as her purple shawl. I should have liked to have sketched her in my album. It would have been an ecstatic caricature. ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... living remained but a dog and a donkey. The reader will learn with surprise that my first feeling of fellowship went out to the dog; I am well aware that I lay open my guard to a lunge of wit. The dog is rather like a donkey, or a small caricature of one, with a large black head and long black ears; but in the mood of the moment there was rather a moral contrast than a pictorial parallel. For the dog did indeed seem to stand for home and everything ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... him, what might not her rise and flight do? It seemed to her that she must remain there forever. But the time would come when that sleeping terror would awake, whether she disturbed him or not, when that distorted caricature of man, as grotesque as a gargoyle on the temple of life, would stretch those twisted legs and arms, and open his eyes and see her; and then? She became sure, the longer she looked, that this was not one of ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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