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cartoonishly adverb uk /kɑːˈtuː.nɪʃ.li/ us /kɑːrˈtuː.nɪʃ.li/ in a way that is not like real life, because of being too simple or exaggerated(= made to seem bigger, smaller, better, worse, more colourful, etc. than it really is) : The villain is so cartoonishly evil it is impossible to take him seriously. The US is seen cartoonishly in this book full of half-truths. Cartoonishly blue water sparkled in the strong sunshine. He galloped cartoonishly onto and across the stage. The novel is set mostly in a cartoonishly quaint town in Germany. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish catastrophize Disneyfication fulsome go overboardidiom inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT over-egg protest too muchidiom romanticize underplay underrate
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