caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
caricaturist
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a word derived from
caricature.
Example Sentences
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"What caricaturists do by nature... is exaggerate the physicality. If a caricaturist is stopped from doing that, there's no point in him being a caricaturist," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
The most enduring parodies were created by James Gillray, a British caricaturist who helped birth the modern political cartoon.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 22, 2023
That was so rare then that, in a gossip column I still have, she was referred to as "New York's girl caricaturist."
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
So Brodner, an illustrator and political caricaturist, carried out one personal act each day.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution.
From "1984" by George Orwell
