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as in parody
a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something
that TV network's reporting is a mere caricature of real journalism
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as in spoof
a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect
the artist creates caricatures of famous paintings by replacing humans with cats
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as in exaggeration
the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts
the mayor has presented only a caricature of his opponent's views
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as in to parody
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of
caricatured the supervisor's distinctive walk
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Recent Examples of caricature
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Too often, caricatures are deployed to justify unfair and unjust treatment.
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Jocelyn Frye,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2026
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
25 Mar. 2026
As for the religious dimension, it’s questioned but not caricatured.
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Bob Strauss,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026
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Noun
And the thing about caricatures?
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Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Too often, caricatures are deployed to justify unfair and unjust treatment.
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Jocelyn Frye,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2026
Verb
Advertisement Commandment 9—Sultan of insult: Reducing complexity to simplicity
As a master of the insensitive insult, Trump strips complex adversaries down to simple, mocking caricatures, often grounded in some shred of truth, however exaggerated and caricatured.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
25 Mar. 2026
As for the religious dimension, it’s questioned but not caricatured.
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Bob Strauss,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026
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Scary Movie paved the way for more big-screen parodies, including Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), and Meet the Spartans (2008).
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Their outmoded style, with its seriousness and corniness, its big acting choices and low budgets, is basically impossible to recreate without falling into parody.
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The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.
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But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.
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Pirate ship is no exaggeration.
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But the fastest swimming speed claims are almost certainly indefensible exaggerations.
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In the weeks leading up to the June 26 release of the film, men mocked 26-year-old Alcock’s appearance across social media.
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Each sketch was packed with mocking details, such as long red ties, Big Macs and lots and lots of gold, to drive home her point.
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As the escape-room activity kicks off — the guests have 30 minutes to find Aesha’s crew — the boys find plenty of opportunity to make insinuating jokes about tying up the girls, some (Coop) more wholesome than others (Luke).
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And as a distant relative jokes, many can be found on mortgages, loans and other debts.
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Beneath its gleeful barrage of kink, karaoke, and absurdist comedy lies a sharp satire of exclusion, identity, and liberation within contemporary Queer culture.
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After the White House initially defended the post as satire, the video in question was deleted after a backlash including from some Republicans.
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This recipe skips the traditional green food coloring in favor of chives for noticeably colorful freshness.
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The coloring signals that the chicken has been cooked evenly.
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Here was a government that had explicitly borrowed from Beijing’s developmental playbook and sincerely attempted to imitate it, but failed.
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These are glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists that imitate a natural hormone in the gut.
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“Caricature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caricature. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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