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Caricaturist   /kˈɛrəkətʃərəst/   Listen
Caricaturist

noun
1.
Someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner.






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"Caricaturist" Quotes from Famous Books



... among whom were Hon. Washington Irving, our late minister to Spain, and the celebrated "Cruikshanks," the caricaturist. ...
— Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 • Various

... it enters the cut-glass decanters and sparkles pure and bright from the filth it has been. She is therefore a being who is truly original. Depicted scores of times by the painter's brush, the pencil of the caricaturist, the charcoal of the etcher, she still escapes analysis, because she cannot be caught and rendered in all her moods, like Nature, like this fantastic Paris itself. She holds to vice by one thread only, and she breaks away from it at ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... cucumber. Have you ever seen Oranmore in court? He is a character worthy of Dickens. His pronounced brogue, his fat, podgy, clean-shaven face, his not always immaculately clean large hands, have often delighted the caricaturist. As it very soon transpired during that memorable magisterial inquiry, he relied for a verdict in favour of his client upon two main points, and he had concentrated all his skill upon making these two points as telling as he ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy

... political or social undertaking than half the politicians of the House of Commons," he was merely expressing a conviction on the part of statesmen that many of them have given evidence of. It is another proof of the power of the caricaturist—a very proper respect for the smile which brings popularity and ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... Furniss is not only a merry man with his pencil. Humour with him may mean a very profitable thing—it unquestionably does; fun and frolic as depicted on paper by "Lika Joko" brings in, as Digby Grant would put it, many "a little cheque." But I venture to think that the clever caricaturist would not have half as many merry ideas running from the mind to the pencil if he sold all his humour outside and forgot to scatter a goodly proportion of it amongst ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



Words linked to "Caricaturist" :   Beerbohm, parodist, lampooner, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm, caricature



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