caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
have caricatured
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present perfectof caricature.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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Wits have caricatured all this, by asking us whether by encouraging the tares to grow, you give the wheat a better chance.
From On Compromise by John Morley
The publications of the day have caricatured the situation until it has become an outworn jest.
From Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework by C. Hélène Barker
We might perhaps imagine that the Egyptian artists have caricatured their adversaries.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The silver tones of my flesh are entirely lost; and see how you have caricatured the elegance of my beautiful hand.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
His formula is too easily mastered, and to his example is due a plague of doloras and humoradas by poetasters who have caricatured their model.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
