1
as in sketch
a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene
a political cartoon mocking the state legislature
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2
as in strip
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
reading the cartoons in the Sunday newspaper
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3
as in parody
a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something
in this biopic the life of a complex man is reduced to a cartoon
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Recent Examples of cartoon
Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
Instead of its usual jolly cartoons, the channel began broadcasting footage of Russian military parades accompanied by music of the Russian nationalist singer Oleg Gazmanov.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
The sixteen-time Grammy Award-winner — who composed original songs for the new Broadway stage family comedy centered around cartoon character Betty Boop — was supported at the starry affair by Gigi Hadid, daughter of his ex-wife, Yolanda Hadid.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA
NEXT-IN-LINE – Pro-Trump writer unsure if JD Vance will carry MAGA movement in 2028.
—FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Each option is super user-friendly, from tapping to set up Wi-Fi to scanning homework at home or streaming cartoons on the go.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
Instead of its usual jolly cartoons, the channel began broadcasting footage of Russian military parades accompanied by music of the Russian nationalist singer Oleg Gazmanov.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
The sixteen-time Grammy Award-winner — who composed original songs for the new Broadway stage family comedy centered around cartoon character Betty Boop — was supported at the starry affair by Gigi Hadid, daughter of his ex-wife, Yolanda Hadid.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA
NEXT-IN-LINE – Pro-Trump writer unsure if JD Vance will carry MAGA movement in 2028.
—FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoon
Noun
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McVeigh is identified from the first sketch as the renter of the bomb truck.—
Todd Pendleton,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The firm uses sketches, renderings, and 3D-modeling software to visualize and perfect every aspect of the design and to ensure smooth communication with architects, contractors, and artisans.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In Hindu culture, strips of palm leaf were used as paper.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2025
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Lawson not only conceived the tribute project and created its cover art (strips of Velvet song lyrics collaged into the shape of a bird in flight) but used to perform with Velvet and has a rare understanding of his songwriting style.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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Imagination was key to the films that Hess made after Napoleon Dynamite: the soulful Nacho Libre, in which Jack Black as a novice monk and Lucha Libre fan gave a fully rounded characterization, and the ingenious fantasy-fiction parody Gentlemen Broncos.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
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Those include the parodies of commercials and public access programs that begin episodes, giving us introductions to Judaism and the French-Canadian mobsters and a particular brand of coffee in ways that, like so much in the series, feel fleetingly amusing rather than coherently realized.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Aesthetically, each episode has its own look tied to the personality of the character explored, which allowed Pixar to use lots of caricaturing and cartoony effects through mixed media.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The connection between Nafisi and Bahri is presented with complexity and without sentimentality, neither papering over political differences nor caricaturing Bahri as a generic revolutionary.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The eighty-one-year-old Crumb, dressed in a long dark coat and his trademark fedora and Coke-bottle glasses, looked over his drawings as if trying to place old acquaintances at a party.—
Bruce Handy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Walz, who has worked many years as a special-education teacher, infuses his drawings with energy, with Theo free falling, sometimes upside down, in a palette of grays and maroons.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The comic featured an original storyline from Stephen King and put Snyder on the map.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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The comic has always tended more towards goofiness and self-deprecation.—
Ashraf Khalil,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Trump sued Maher in 2013 for $5 million after the comedian made a crass joke about his mother and an orangutan.—
Steff Danielle Thomas,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
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Andrews adds musical interludes, which don’t always work, and brutal jokes, which do.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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To picture this, imagine two stars orbiting each other in a flat plane, like spinning wheels.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Watchmen Emmy winner, pictured speaking on a corded phone, wore a blue-gray suit with a matching tie over a white shirt.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Cartoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartoon. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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