caricature
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cari·ca·ture (kar′i kə c̸hər, -c̸ho̵or′)
noun
- a picture or imitation of a person, literary style, etc. in which certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect
- the act or art of making such caricatures
- a likeness or imitation that is so distorted or inferior as to seem ludicrous
Etymology: Fr < It caricatura, satirical picture, lit., an overloading < caricare, to load, exaggerate < VL carricare: see charge
transitive verb caricatured -·tured, caricaturing -·tur·ing
Related Forms:
- caricaturist car′i·ca·tur·ist noun
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Object
- portrait: This involved drawing caricature portraits of various musical artists for the magazine's LP review section.
Converse of object
- draw: During the evening Malcolm Lee helped raise funds by drawing caricatures of some of the guests.
Adjective modifier
- crude: Ugly, pubescent, often lower class and furnished with a regional accent the dummy is a crude technical caricature of the human body.
Modifies a noun
- portrait: Caricature Weddings Personalize your wedding stationery with your own caricature portrait.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: This is probably the most common fault with peoples drawings, resulting in a cartoon or caricature rather than a realistic portrait.
Noun used with modifier
- cartoon: Rather than using photographs to complement each profile, the firm have instead used cartoon caricatures.
Preposition: of
- Marxism: Faced with this caricature of Marxism, Debord improvised a critique.
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