- present tense form of caricature (3rd person singular).
caricatures
Example Sentences
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Caricatures are a shorthand for the physical traits that make stars distinctive: Angela Lansbury’s immense Tweety Bird eyes, for example, or Bernadette Peters’s Cupid’s bow mouth.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Caricatures of Darwin as a monkey appeared almost as soon as the Descent of Man was published.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Caricatures filled prints and illustrated books, poetry took wild turns, and comic fiction flourished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2018
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Caricatures are not forbidden by the Catholic church.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2015
Caricatures of every sort represent him under emblems which, though not the most odious, are the most suitable to nourish and augment popular disdain.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
