caricatures

Example Sentences

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Characters are caricatures, be it a villain that feels plucked from a cartoon western, complete with a purring raccoon for a sidekick, to a greedy wannabe politician of a bank manager.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Critics took issue with the book’s uncharitable caricatures of people assumed to be in the author’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Brahim Chnina, the Moroccan father of a schoolgirl who falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing the caricatures, was sentenced to 13 years.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

AI-generated caricatures of this demographic have gone viral on social media: a middle-aged man decked out in street wear and clutching an iPhone.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

When voters got to see me as a person, they understood that the caricatures were untrue.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama