caricature

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Foley said the caricature was his "most prized possession."

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  1. 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.
  2. noun The art of creating such representations.
  3. 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
  • Foley said the caricature was his "most prized possession." —  PWTorch.com
  • Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in the detail of witty and trenchantly satirical dialogue, the central idea of a fountain of self-love is not very well carried out, and the persons revert at times to abstractions, the action to allegory. —  Every Man in His Humor
  • 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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parody ·  travesty ·  farce ·  mockery ·  exaggeration ·  joke ·  mimicry ·  irony ·  blunder ·  drawing ·  anecdote ·  satire
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  1. 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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  1. Formerly in Italian form caricatura = Dutch karikatuur = German caricatur, karikatur = Danish Swedish karikatur, from French caricature, from Italian caricatura (= Spanish Portuguese caricatura), a satirical picture, from caricare, load, overload, exaggerate, = French charger, load, later English charge, q. v.
 

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/ˈkærɪkətʃjur/
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