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Caricaturing

Caricature \Car"i*ca*ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caricatured; p. pr. & vb. n. Caricaturing.] To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand.
--Lord Lyttelton.

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caricaturing

vb. (present participle of caricature English)

Usage examples of "caricaturing".

This was caricaturing, making a parody of her art and what she did, an unamusing joke against herself.

He was overdoing it so thoroughlythe oldest, rustiest of the trucks, the conspicuous absence of basic courte,sy-that she felt sure he was deliberately caricaturing the city impression of rustic redneck manners, even to his clothing-plaid shirt, clean but faded jeans, and the cap, which he did not remove.

Knapps of caricaturing, and holding up to the ridicule of the school, me —thy master.

She smoked silently for a few moments, and I could tell that the actress part of her was warming to the idea of caricaturing Betty Short.

The middle part of the prelude, in which the opening march tune is heard in short, quick notes (in diminution, as the theoreticians say) maybe looked upon as caricaturing the mastersingers, not in their fair estate, but as they are satirized in the comedy in the person of Beckmesser.

You can fuck around with masculinity and femininity by heightening them, by flattening them, by caricaturing them, by placing them ostentatiously in quotation marks, or by crossing or conflating them in ways that violently flout our usual expectations.