Get to know Caricature better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like imitation or impersonation.
Caricature meaning
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
Using Caricature
- The main meaning on this page is: A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect. | A grotesque misrepresentation. | In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- Useful related words include: imitation, impersonation, wit, humor.
- In the example corpus, caricature often appears in combinations such as: caricature of, to caricature, the caricature.
Context around Caricature
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 11 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Caricature
- In this selection, "caricature" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shelled, wing, solar, company, level and down stand out and add context to how "caricature" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a solar caricature under the and a villainous caricature but as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "caricature" sits close to words such as acquittal, acumen and alfa, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with caricature
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Billie is a hollow-shelled caricature of what an influencer is à la Netflix’s. (15 words)
There was also a stilt-walker, live band, caricature artist and DJ to keep people amused. (16 words)
Shannon's Mary Katherine Gallagher, on the other hand, is a caricature of a shy Catholic school girl. (18 words)
Eduard Stegter’s deputy for climate and energy: “It is great to see that the good cooperation between the municipality and the entrepreneur leads to solar parks that fit into a solar caricature under the smoke of Schiphol. (38 words)
It would be so easy for this to become a caricature of blonde bombshells of the 1950s but Emma never falls into that trap and gives us someone who shines through as a real person. (35 words)
A dedicated spin-off, then, is long overdue, but there’s a question of whether there’s a desire to develop Majima further beyond the heightened, if highly entertaining, caricature he’s started to become. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
I love cartoons—they are so much a part of caricature, and caricature is useful in terms of style.
After the presentation, Jon Crowe of Caricature Company of Flagstaff drew portraits of guests, some dressed in 1970s attire.
And given the current state of the opinion polls, Akshata surely knew she risked looking like a desperate woman pleading for Rishi's survival, some cut-out caricature of a Stepford Wife.
Bernadette and Howard bonded over their mutually domineering parents, and Bernadette was something of a caricature with her signature high-pitched squeaky voice.
Billie is a hollow-shelled caricature of what an influencer is à la Netflix’s.
Despite its past and its flaws, the country is open, fair-minded, and in no way the nightmarish regime of white privilege portrayed in left-wing caricature.
Eduard Stegter’s deputy for climate and energy: “It is great to see that the good cooperation between the municipality and the entrepreneur leads to solar parks that fit into a solar caricature under the smoke of Schiphol.
Even Beth Dutton, the main female lead, is consistently written as an over-the-top caricature, and new women characters like Clara Frewerbrought in as foils to the men.
Even his revelation as being HIV-positive wasn't quite given the nuance it was meant to have, with the publishing standards of the era seeing him as simple caricature.
It does play into some of Edgar Wright's interests, but it doesn't become an identifiable caricature of an Edgar Wright ad.
It’ll compel you to see Hoover, not as a villainous caricature, but as a conflicted, flawed human being.
It would be so easy for this to become a caricature of blonde bombshells of the 1950s but Emma never falls into that trap and gives us someone who shines through as a real person.
Majors takes any verbal or physical tics from his prior MCU performances and dials them up to caricature level.
Shannon's Mary Katherine Gallagher, on the other hand, is a caricature of a shy Catholic school girl.
Stark is touring Vietnam and is kidnapped by the warlord Wong-Chu (a Yellow Peril caricature, down to the broken English and the shading on his skin).
Textbook descriptions, which include the presence of purple stretch marks and a hump, are “almost a caricature,” Findling observed.
The Cleveland Indians announced that they would remove the Chief Wahoo logo from their uniforms in the coming baseball season, after decades of protests and complaints that the grinning, red-faced caricature was racist.
There was also a stilt-walker, live band, caricature artist and DJ to keep people amused.
Wamiqa Gabbi says, “Playing a character from a period drama is extremely tricky because we tend to caricature people as we have seen in the movies.
A dedicated spin-off, then, is long overdue, but there’s a question of whether there’s a desire to develop Majima further beyond the heightened, if highly entertaining, caricature he’s started to become.
Common combinations with caricature
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- caricature of 48×
- to caricature 12×
- the caricature 8×
- caricature and 7×
- is caricature 7×
- of caricature 6×
- caricature but 4×
- caricature by 4×
- and caricature 3×
- caricature artist 3×