(the art of making) a drawing or written or spoken description of someone that usually makes them look silly by making part of their appearance or character more noticeable than it really is

The characters in his early novels are a lot subtler than the overblown caricatures in his more recent work. 同他近期作品中夸张的讽刺描述相比，他早期小说中的人物要含蓄得多。

figurative Over the years he's become a grotesque caricature of himself. 经过这么些年，他已经变得性情乖张，举止荒谬。

to create a caricature

Charles Dickens caricatured lawyers (= represented them in a way that made them look silly) in several of his novels. 查尔斯•狄更斯在几部小说里对律师进行了讽刺性描述。