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caricature
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  • "You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors." "Ain't a characterture," said Jem. [sic]  (source)
    caricatures = representations for comic effect
  • She called my parents and told them about my F." The letter ended with a reminder about a "neat spell," drawings of knives and vampire teeth, mushrooms, and a caricature of Mrs. R. lying in a pool of blood, butcher knives protruding from her chest.†  (source)
  • Faust the Dog also had pictures—lovely curves and ears and caricatures of a German Shepherd with an obscene drooling problem and the ability to talk.†  (source)
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  • "Oh boy, my favourite!" he would say, rolling his eyes, rubbing his stomach in a caricature of hunger, overdoing it.†  (source)
  • I specialize in caricatures of teachers.†  (source)
  • Pitaji's face caricatured outrage.†  (source)
  • the row of dowdy banks, caricaturing a shaken economic system);†  (source)
  • Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution.†  (source)
  • Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture.†  (source)
  • it was so Misery-esque it was nearly a caricature, what with motherly old Mrs Ramage dipping snuff in the pantry, Ian and Misery pawing each other like a couple of horny kids just home from the Friday-night high-school dance, and, Now she was the one who looked bewildered.†  (source)
  • When he turned into an alehouse girl or a virgin princess, he used a high falsetto voice that reduced them all to tears of helpless laughter, and his eunuchs were always eerily accurate caricatures of Ser Alliser.†  (source)
  • They are colorful small-town citizens, but not caricatured rubes.†  (source)
  • I must say, I might have known that people who were so fond of architecture generally, would not be backward in ornamenting themselves; all the more as the shape of their raiment, apart from its colour, was both beautiful and reasonable—veiling the form, without either muffling or caricaturing it.†  (source)
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