1. caricature

verb. ['ˈkɛrɪkəˌtʃɝː'] represent in or produce a caricature of.

Rhymes with Caricature

• curvature
• expenditure
• forfeiture
• investiture
• literature
• musculature
• signature
• tablature
• tabulature
• temperature
• temperature

How do you pronounce caricature?

Pronounce caricature as ˈkɛrɪkəˌʧər.

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Sentences with caricature

1. Noun, singular or mass
The key is to personalize the caricature by making it specific to the subject.

Quotes about caricature

1. When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

2. He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

3. Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.
- Antonio R. Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

2. caricature

noun. ['ˈkɛrɪkəˌtʃɝː'] a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.