caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
has caricatured
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present perfectof caricature (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Sir Robert Peel and the London Times, Madame Stowe has caricatured, slandered and misrepresented her country, to please the English people.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
Gam, it may be supposed, was his nick-name, as he called himself David Llewellyn; and there are good grounds for supposing that Shakspeare has caricatured him in Captain Fluellin.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by James Endell Tyler
The mother was a sentimental woman, whom Dickens, with questionable taste, has caricatured as Mrs. Micawber and again as Mrs. Nickleby.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
Do not think Mr. Millais has caricatured it.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin
Walter Scott, in his schoolmasters, has caricatured pedantry; so has Shakespeare.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
