caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
self-caricature
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a word derived from
caricature.
Example Sentences
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But there is more to her stories than cold disquisitions or horrific self-caricature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
It has, however, long since become a byword for academic self-caricature, where students protest, among many microaggressions, the food service’s insensitive cultural appropriation of banh mi sandwiches, sushi and General Tso’s chicken.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2019
You can see him plugging away at it, on scaffolding just under the ceiling, in a self-caricature drawn in the margin of a handwritten sonnet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
That's not my description – it is Rich Ricci's own self-caricature.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013
It is a piece of self-caricature, a series of echoes from all the earlier plays, an exaggeration of manner to the pitch of mannerism.
From When We Dead Awaken by William Archer
