caricatured

past tense of caricature

Example Sentences

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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
  • Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) further refined the formula, while a number of decidedly sillier capers in the ’60s both parodied and advanced the genre, helping set the stage for the modern Ocean’s movies.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
  • These polyester fits have also been parodied in video skits, where comedians put on an all-over polyester print outfit, like a wolf T-shirt and galaxy pants, and parody the stereotypical nerdy kid.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In fact, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured more than a thousand people but hardly rocked the buildings, ironworkers mocked the idea that any terrorist could ever take down those great structures.
    Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • He was criticised by Guardiola last season for not challenging Virgil van Dijk anywhere near enough at Anfield in February, and he was mocked by supporters at Old Trafford in January after he was kept quiet by Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The ’90s — its music, its films, its pre-social-media privacy — has become an object of fascination, and Long argues the era can’t be imitated or counterfeited.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • We’ve been copied, we’ve been imitated, we have been pushed to the back.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Caricatured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caricatured. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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