Meanings
- uncountableThe state or condition of being cartoonish.
Peggy Cosgrave, under the direction of Penguin’s artistic director, Joe Brancato, gives Clara a genial, down-to-earth kindness that keeps her simplicity from crossing over into cartoonishness — a real risk given the jokey facility of Mr. Dudzick’s writing.
2009 May 31, Sylviane Gold, “And All Because Mary Visited the Barbershop”, in New York Times1 more example
But while Katy Perry similarly threw herself into the spirit of the event – crowdsurfing, dancing with a security guard, charming the audience – her peculiar combination of newfound political conscience and longstanding predisposition to DayGlo cartoonishness was simultaneously intriguing and baffling, as a woman delivering between-song speeches about the necessity of taking back power surrounded by dancers dressed as flowers and giant pom-poms covered in fluorescent fur was perhaps wont to be.
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
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cartoonishness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cartoonishness
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