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noun
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caricatura feminine- One remarkable characteristic of this work is that the author does not reduce his subjects to ludicrous caricatures.
- He feels compelled to present the most ludicrous caricatures of modern science.
- ‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
- This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
- On stage, I am a caricature of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well.
- Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
transitive verb
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caricaturizar- What amazes and pleases me is that the organisation listened to this complaint in a spirit of actual intellectual engagement, rather than just ignoring or caricaturing their critics.
- Another tale has it that several co-workers are furious at my caricaturing them on one post.
- From 1903 Wells devoted much of his energy to the Fabian movement but after falling out with their leaders savagely caricatured them in his novel, The New Machiavelli.
- He has been caricatured, as a man more interested in country and western music than opera, and it is true that he has a formidable expertise in the area of popular music.
- Their activities could be caricatured as ‘do-gooding’, which is irrelevant to the real business objective of making a profit.
- The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
- Each side caricatured the other in this way - and continues to do so.
- By his own admission, he's been caricatured by his peers as ‘egocentric, dominating, and untalented’.
- For too long, he was caricatured as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
- An enterprise economy is not, as caricatured by statist propaganda, a devil-take-the-hindmost free-for-all.
- Her more nuanced views are frequently caricatured.
- The first can easily be caricatured as bull-headed aggression: the second as social work masquerading as security.
- He had been caricatured for his right-wing geopolitical and social policies his entire career.
- He is frequently caricatured as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
- The style and drafting of the Constitution also are unfairly caricatured.
- Essentially he was caricaturing the age of the machine, and the self-importance of some of the people caught up in that age - creating complex inventions that achieved absurdly simple results, while the audience looked on solemnly.
- Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes caricaturing his opponents' positions.
- And… I think he's caricaturing the left.
- It was then that cartoonists began caricaturing him as a cockatoo.
- Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
