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caricatured

verb

past tense of caricature

as in parodied

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of caricatured the supervisor's distinctive walk

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Recent Examples of caricatured For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone. — Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026 And the ones that do exist were faceless in fields, or caricatured — displayed as subservient property. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 June 2026 These changes have been caricatured as authoritarian and corrupt. — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026 This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels. — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026 The first was King George III himself, a monarch often caricatured but in fact more attentive to the British constitutional tradition than his American detractors allowed. — Danielle Allen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

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The song was featured on the album Album 1700 and parodied the style of famous acts of the time, including The Beatles and The Mamas & The Papas.

— Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
As Buffy Gilmore, Shannon Elizabeth parodied the girl-next-door archetype, eventually proving to be not so innocent behind the scenes.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026

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