Synonyms of caricaturing

caricaturing

verb

present participle of caricature

as in parodying

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

caricatured the supervisor's distinctive walk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodying
• imitating
• mocking
• doing
• mimicking
• spoofing
• burlesquing
• ridiculing
• satirizing
• emulating
• lampooning
• sending up
• playing
• reproducing
• simulating
• travestying
• deriding
• performing
• pretending
• aping
• gibing
• parroting
• replicating
• exaggerating
• monkeying
• duplicating
• acting
• feigning
• elaborating
• shamming
• dissembling
• enhancing
• personating
• stretching
• embellishing
• embroidering
• overstating
• miming
• pantomiming
• faking
• amplifying
• counterfeiting
• expanding
• overdrawing
• impersonating
• copycatting
• magnifying
• pasquinading
• padding
• enlarging (on or upon)
• playing up
• putting on
• fleshing (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of caricaturing

After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation. — Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025