caricature
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Foley said the caricature was his "most prized possession."
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- noun A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
- noun The art of creating such representations.
- noun A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation: The trial was a caricature of justice.
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- Islam has justly been characterized as the caricature of a religion. — Akbar Emperor of India
- The last sentence being open to the interpretation that the subject of the caricature was a dishonest man, a complaint was lodged with the Procureur-General against the proprietor of the paper, and was supported by the newly-constituted Men of Letters Society. — Balzac
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Foley said the caricature was his "most prized possession."
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"I think I did one play in college and one in high school," he recalled last week at Sardi's, where his caricature was added to the famous collection of theater stars lining the restaurant's walls.
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This relation of social character to the possible supply of good Art is still more direct when we include in our survey the mass of illustration coming under the general head of dramatic caricature -- caricature, that is to say, involving right understanding of the true grotesque in human life; caricature of which the worth or harmfulness cannot be estimated, unless we can first somewhat answer the wide question, What is the meaning and worth of English laughter?
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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- French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, to load, exaggerate, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon; see kers- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (kărˈĭ-kə-cho͝orˌ, -chər)/
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