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Word entry · 10 letters

caricature

Best crossword clue

"Comic portrait"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aacceirrtuStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. represent in or produce a caricature of

Word origin

From French caricature, from Italian caricatura, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”).

Used in a sentence

  • Lo Ching-chong (羅慶忠), better known as L.C.C., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001. In the black-and-white drawing, Lu sports a bird's nest-like hairdo, with a bird perched in it.
  • Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
  • A grotesque caricature of virtue.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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