caricature
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, n. [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to
charge, overload, exaggerate. See {Charge}, v. t.]
1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts
or characteristics, as in a picture.
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2. A picture or other figure or description in which the
peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as
to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly
written {caricatura}.]
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The truest likeness of the prince of French
literature will be the one that has most of the look
of a caricature. --I. Taylor.
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A grotesque caricature of virtue. --Macaulay.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "caricature":
Atticism, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification,
amplify, anamorphosis, animated cartoon, bad likeness, ballyhoo,
belie, big talk, black humor, blowing up, bosh, botch, build up,
bunk, burlesque, camouflage, carry too far, cartoon, cheat,
clinquant, color, comedy, comic book, comic strip, comics, daub,
dilatation, dilation, disguise, distort, distortion,
draw the longbow, dry wit, enhancement, enlargement, esprit,
exaggerate, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance,
expansion, extravagance, extreme, fake, falsify, farce, funnies,
gammon, garble, go to extremes, grandiloquence, heightening,
hit off on, hokum, huckstering, humor, hyperbole, hyperbolism,
hyperbolize, imitation, inflation, inordinacy, irony, lampoon,
laughingstock, lay it on, libel, magnification, magnify,
make much of, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent,
misstate, misteach, mock, mockery, moonshine, nimble wit,
overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overemphasis, overestimate,
overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overreach, overreact,
oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstatement, overstress, parody,
pasquinade, pastiche, pervert, phony, pile it on, pinchbeck,
pleasantry, pretty wit, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery,
puffing up, quick wit, ready wit, ridicule, salt, sarcasm, satire,
satirize, savor of wit, scratch, scribble, send up, sensationalism,
sham, shoddy, slant, slapstick, slapstick humor, spoof, squib,
stretch, stretch the truth, stretching, subtle wit, superlative,
take off, take off on, take-off, takeoff, talk big,
talk in superlatives, tall talk, tinsel, tout, touting, travesty,
twist, understate, visual humor, warp, wicked imitation, wit,
wrench
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