Definition of Caricature

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Caricature

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

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.

To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

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Caricature Quotations

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
Mia Kirshner

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith

Caricature Translations

caricature in French is caricaturer
caricature in German is Karikatur
caricature in Swedish is karikera, karikatyr

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