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caricature | American Dictionary

caricature
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkær·ɪ·kəˌtʃʊər, -tʃər/
a drawing or a written or spoken description that makes part of someone's appearance or character more noticeable than it really is, or the skill of doing this:
[ C ]I saw a wonderful caricature of the president in the newspaper.
caricature
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkær·ɪ·kəˌtʃʊər, -tʃər/
to show or describe a person in a ridiculous way:
It’s so easy to caricature politicians.

Examples of caricature

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Unlike more typically-developing age mates, the late talkers do not ' comprehend ' the object names when given shape caricatures.
Imitations of the voices of well-known figures by vocal impressionists are caricatures that exaggerate particularly salient features rather than produce acoustically accurate reproductions.
Both typically-developing control groups were better than late talkers at recognizing shape caricatures of objects whose names they knew.
Object categories were represented two ways : by lifelike, perceptually rich toys, and by grey caricatures of those objects' abstract shapes.
Scholars would be regularly caricatured as either incapable of self-discipline and abstraction or excessively absorbed in their studies to the detriment of their social duties.
Visual images such as caricatures generated and reinforced public opinion.
By contrast, caricatures tended to depict him as an ape.
His barbarous idols are horrific caricatures of the real thing.
Though she graced fewer pages than the traditional fashion plate, she put her stamp on paintings, photographs, and caricatures.
Anyone who endeavors to par r y or defuse those challenges must separa te them from the caricatures that inter mittently accompany them.
Figure 2b shows the children's performances when asked to identify named shape caricatures.
Because the editors did not include any explicatory comments in that or in subsequent issues, it is difficult to fully understand the caricature's significance.
The image of the horsewoman is better understood by using a wide variety of sources, including carte-de-visite photographs, fashion journals, equitation manuals, and caricatures.
I studied both perception and production of animal caricatures by human beings and machine programs.
Similarly, many physicians, and leaders of some organizations that speak for them, have caricatured evidence-based health care research as promoting 'cookbook medicine'.
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