caricature
karikatur
definition
verb
he was caricatured on the cover of TV Guide
make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something).
noun
a caricature of Jimmy Durante
a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
example
This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd 'caricature' version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of 'caricature' have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation.
a crude 'caricature' of the Prime Minister
he looked like a 'caricature' of his normal self
a 'caricature' of Jimmy Durante
there are elements of 'caricature' in the portrayal of the hero
Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a 'caricature' .
In 1803 Gillray created a prototype 'caricature' of Napoleon which was widely copied by his competitors.
Memin is a cartoon character from a decades-old and much-beloved Mexican comic book, a 'caricature' of a young, black Mexican boy.
‘It's just fun, almost a 'caricature' version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
On stage, I am a 'caricature' of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well.
Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous 'caricature' in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a 'caricature' of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties.
While there is certainly an element of 'caricature' in Geikie's works they are never caricatures per se.
The element of cartoonish 'caricature' finds its way into much of this production.
One of the four pictures was an old-fashioned 'caricature' of a bomb - round and black with a burning fuse.
Usually I find him insufferable, but here he had a quieter, naïve quality that made him more real, rather than a 'caricature' or mere comic foil.
He plays the role well without every going over the top or becoming a 'caricature' , and is creates an extremely sympathetic character.
there are elements of 'caricature' in the portrayal of the hero
he looked a 'caricature' of his normal self
The competition is open to all amateur artists, designers, cartoonists, doodlers and 'caricaturists' .
Her more nuanced views are frequently 'caricatured' .
He would sit sometimes in the woods from morning until late afternoon, scraping away at fallen branches, creating crude animal 'caricatures' of all shapes and sizes.
He is frequently 'caricatured' as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
The expressions of the actors are extremely vigorous and exaggerated - close to 'caricatures' .
I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly 'caricatural' , the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
The images are obviously 'caricatures' rather than drawings from life, and the characters' words are likewise not to be mistaken for those of the actual historical actors.
The award-winning cartoonist and 'caricaturist' , Shankar, would have become a motor mechanic, had he followed the advice of his father.
The aim is to avoid the straw man fallacy - rejecting positions not on the basis of their true characteristics but on the basis of crude or otherwise erroneous 'caricatures' of them.
For too long, he was 'caricatured' as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
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