caricatured

past tense of caricature

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Recent Examples of caricatured In creative, advanced age is omitted or caricatured, reducing relevance before the message has a chance to work. Ray Lansigan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 And the ones that do exist were faceless in fields, or caricatured — displayed as subservient property. Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 June 2026 In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels. Literary Hub, 9 June 2026 The first was King George III himself, a monarch often caricatured but in fact more attentive to the British constitutional tradition than his American detractors allowed. Danielle Allen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion. Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone. Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caricatured
Verb
  • Maury Povich is looking back on being parodied by Jim Carrey on In Living Color.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
  • As for her hair, Electra’s waist-length tresses were streaked with red dye—a clever ode to the bloody slasher films parodied in the Scary Movie franchise.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Instead of treating her and Povich’s pregnancy struggles with care, the pair were widely mocked in the media and on late-night shows, including on In Living Color, which had premiered on Fox in 1990.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
  • Fans rightfully mocked the dancing cars mounted on robot arms that played during an inexplicable diversion on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Studio Tour.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • When fraudsters adopt voice cloning, banks respond with checks that test for the subtle traces cloning leaves behind, and when defenders turn to the study of behavior, criminals begin to rehearse how ordinary conduct can be imitated.
    Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • But according to some luxury brands, authenticity is something that is often imitated but never replicated.
    James Sneed, NPR, 10 July 2026

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“Caricatured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caricatured. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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