caricature
noun
a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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We wish we were caricaturing instead of representing things as they are.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond