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cartoonish

/ ˌkɑːˈtuːnɪʃ /

adjective

  1. like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It will include an intimate series of never-before-seen smoke signals — cartoonish puffs of white smoke — fabricated on stretched car upholstery that Therrien made when he was dying of cancer and could barely lift a pen.

The last thing we need is to be lectured about artificiality by someone whose cartoonish accent drops out every fifth sentence.

From Salon

Bringing a very different energy was hip-hop legend Busta Rhymes, whose cartoonish energy and breakneck rap flow was guaranteed to get the audience on side.

From BBC

This alienation breeds a twisted utopian mentality that not only rejects modernity, but also tradition and the actual past in favor of a cartoonish pastiche that misapprehends both the past and the present.

From Salon

But then the already goofy “Flight or Flight” takes a turn to the insanely cartoonish as it begins its descent, into a tangle of hallucinatory madness, unearned twists and mind-boggling cliffhangers.

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