cartoonish

comparative more cartoonish · superlative most cartoonish

1. figurativelyExaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

   She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.

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   Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

   2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club

   [David] Remnick suggested it was “cartoonish”, to which [Anna] Wintour agreed, adding: “Yes, a caricature.”

   2025 September 10, Catherine Shoard, “‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   His requirement for compliments, flattery, adoration and awards is so continual and extreme that it is of cartoonish proportions, with all the garishness that characterizes the most exaggerated satire.

   2026 February 19, Lisa Langhammer, “Trump’s ‘Cartoonish’ Monuments to Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: cartoonesque, cartoonlike, cartoony