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
  • 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
  • Mel Gibson has issued an apology amid backlash over his recent appearance at FanExpo Canada, where the Oscar winner mocked an ASL interpreter while walking on stage to attend his retrospective Q&A.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Barney & Friends, the enormously popular and widely mocked PBS series about a singing, dancing purple dinosaur, is the obvious touchstone for the children’s-show-as-hellscape in the new movie Buddy.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • We’ve been copied, we’ve been imitated, we have been pushed to the back.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Still, Nixon created a blueprint for presidential lawlessness that Trump imitated and greatly expanded.
    Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Caricatured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caricatured. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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