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- adjective Resembling a
caricature
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Examples
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People are wise to this tactic now, it is caricaturish. sunshine
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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One way you could cue the readers to its significance is to overdo the style in a caricaturish way.
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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Her Billie Dawn was coarser than Holliday's, but never caricaturish, and the coarseness only heightened our pleasure in seeing Billie become more sensitive, truly educated.
Howard Kissel: Three Revivals Howard Kissel 2011
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Further: ... the protagonist's inner machinations [in one of the stories] are merely caricaturish.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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Yes, in the original trilogy all the action has an intentionally caricaturish slant to it, being based on 30s serials.
Sound Off: Indiana Jones 4 - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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