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- adjective Resembling a
cartoon
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The Watering Trough, 1923" features a pig with the Mona Lisa smile that make so many of Chagall's animals seem benign and cartoonlike.
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Instead, they present a rich stew of often cartoonlike storytelling, gruesome caricatures and sensationalistic tableaux.
The Artists Who Made a Poster a Day: Uncovering a Trove of Soviet Art 2011
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With his exaggerated, cartoonlike gowns, his eccentric get-ups and his million-dollar fashion shows, he made headlines and soaring profits for the house.
Fashion designer crackups raise question: Is industry's pace too relentless? 2011
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The catfight cried for relief after a while, though, and it came through the cartoonlike thought bubbles carried on by the chorus.
'Maximum India' features a bold take on Ibsen, reading of Indian short stories 2011
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But they were strange forms, cartoonlike images of hooded figures moving around in flat, childish landscapes.
Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011
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"That's crazy," said Assistant Angela, who had lately gone emo weird and grown out her bangs so that they covered her cartoonlike eyes, which had made Assistant Tom slightly less horny than usual in her presence.
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Pieces of metal had collected around the buildings like sand on a reef: the tailgate of a pickup, a cartoonlike section of chain with eight-inch links, several road signs, patches cut out of them with a torch.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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Some observers note that for all their cuteness and flippant humor, these cartoonlike characters evoke a sense of loneliness, anxiety and spiritual emptiness.
All Eyes Inward 2009
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Was Uncle Press looking nervously at some big cartoonlike gas gauge that was creeping toward empty?
The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009
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Was Uncle Press looking nervously at some big cartoonlike gas gauge that was creeping toward empty?
The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009
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