Definition of "caricature" A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect . quotations examples
Quotations Lo Ching -chong (羅慶忠), better known as L .C .C ., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001. In the black -and -white drawing , Lu sports a bird 's nest -like hairdo , with a bird perched in it.
2006 March 7, Shu-ling Ko, “Cartoonists decry the lack of interest in their talents”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 2006-12-30, Taiwan News, page 3
A grotesque misrepresentation . quotations examples
Quotations A grotesque caricature of virtue .
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Anything more appalling than this jumbled mass of the remains of a departed race I cannot imagine , and what made it even more dreadful was that in this dry air a considerable number of the bodies had simply become desiccated with the skin still on them , and now , fixed in every conceivable position , stared at us out of the mountain of white bones , grotesquely horrible caricatures of humanity .
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
Having the characteristics of a caricature , grotesque . quotations examples
Quotations That singularly foolish old lady , her grandmother , got up a sort of caricature conspiracy , and Miss Churchill was to have been married to a coxcombical Jacobite , of the name of Trevanion ; but he was arrested in the church , though he has since escaped by means of the jailor 's daughter .
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 274–275
verb third-person singular simple present caricatures , present participle caricaturing , simple past and past participle caricatured
To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner . quotations examples
Quotations Their faults grew suddenly perceptible , and their absurdities an unfailing subject of mimicry . All these , in his hands , became singularly amusing . Francesca , who had little knowledge , and no envy , of the individuals so relentlessly caricatured could not help being entertained .
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 180