caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
caricatured
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past participleof caricature.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof caricature.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
caricaturenouna picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
Example Sentences
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Is any labor dispute today caricatured more than the contract negotiations between Major League Baseball owners and their players?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Magyar will want, as he did during the campaign, not to be caricatured as being a pawn of Brussels; do not expect him to say yes to everything," said an EU diplomat.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
During Newby’s tenure as chief justice, a cartoon has hung in the Supreme Court depicting him as Superman, surrounded by a coterie of conservative appellate justices caricatured as other members of DC Comics’ Justice League.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
One worrisome trend, they said, is the production of highly caricatured “War of Resistance god-tier dramas” that feature ludicrously unrealistic story lines and scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
He would mumble sotto voce, pausing now and then to emit a murmur that students caricatured as “nim-nim-nim.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
