caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
had caricatured
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past perfectof caricature.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Some of the participants, including Mr. Cox and Mr. Bernstein, objected that Ms. Curtis and Mr. Wolfe had caricatured a serious event.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2011
Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, to his excessive annoyance, Siward saw that, unconsciously, he had caricatured Quarrier—Ferrall's malicious request for a Vandyke beard making the caricature dreadfully apparent.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Staniford ended his tirade with a laugh, in which he vented his humorous sense and his fundamental pity of the conditions he had caricatured.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by William Dean Howells
I had caricatured him, as he thought, with intent to hurt his feelings; and he had publicly—and very unjustly—accused me of artistic snobbery.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward
