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Definition of "cartoonishly" []

  • In a cartoonish manner; thus, in a comical or exaggerated way (adverb)

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Use "cartoonishly" in a sentence
  • "Apple may have Al Gore on its board of directors, but that won't stop them from shipping teeny tiny remote controls in cartoonishly large boxes."
  • "But I am not sure a work of fiction can “illustrate” any such thesis in a robust manner, except in the way that fictional “illustrations” of this kind do, which is to say cartoonishly, without a serious empirical effort, and by assuming away many difficulties, children among them."
  • "When I say "cartoonishly," I mean probably a solid third of the words of this novel are devoted to telling just how mean the Nightside's streets are, in terms so escalatingly hyperbolic the effect really becomes humorous--intentionally, I hope."