Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who draws or writes caricatures; specifically, one who occupies himself with drawing pictorial caricatures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who caricatures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who draws
caricatures .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each artist would be called a caricaturist because his instinctive penetration had taken him into regions where the powder-puff and the rouge-pot lose their power.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Each artist would be called a caricaturist because his instinctive penetration had taken him into regions where the powder-puff and the rouge-pot lose their power.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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In this sense, the caricaturist is the least godlike, most secondhand of all artists.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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It goes without saying that the Jewish type is not uniform, nor do we wish to concede that the caricaturist is always true to nature, but it must be acknowledged that the typical Jewish figure is not pleasing to the eye.
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He cannot be called a caricaturist, for in his work there lacks that fierce quality of critical conception -- above all, that subject-matter that makes one think, that sardonic appeal to head and heart at once, which make up the sum of true caricature.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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It goes without saying that the Jewish type is not uniform, nor do we wish to concede that the caricaturist is always true to nature, but it must be acknowledged that the typical Jewish figure is not pleasing to the eye.
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All that universe of ranks and respectabilities in comparison with which Dickens was called a caricaturist, all that Victorian universe in which he seemed vulgar -- all that is itself breaking up like a cloudland.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905
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Each artist would be called a caricaturist because his instinctive penetration had taken him into regions where the powder-puff and the rouge-pot lose their power.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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"But taking that on is asking for a lot: To have the last name and become a caricaturist is a lot to live up to."
NYT > Home Page By COREY KILGANNON 2011
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Richmond, the ever-talented caricaturist, has posted his poster art for the 2011 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards, featuring a half-dozen honorees and nominees for May's ceremony.
IMAGE OF THE WEEKEND: Tom Richmond talks of unveiled NCS Reubens art 2011
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