grotesque

[US]/ɡrəʊˈtesk/
[UK]/ɡroʊˈtesk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. bizarre style; strange thing
adj. bizarre; strange; ridiculous

Phrases & Collocations

grotesque appearance

grotesque figures

grotesque humor

grotesque style

Example Sentences

a lifestyle of grotesque luxury.

the film is an epic fantasy populated by grotesque weirdos.

Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.

His face has a grotesque appearance.

Goya's etchings describe the horrors of war in grotesque detail.

rainspouts terminating in gargoyles and other grotesque creatures.

She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.

The creatures themselves are veiny, scary, and bordering on the grotesque, with Satan-worthy roars.

small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis;

All that inapprehensible questions I considered at that time were so footling and grotesque I feel nowadays.

"Ligeia", which Poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack Gothicism.

Ridiculousness and grotesque makes people happy and confident with its beauty and fantasy.The art of ugliness sweeps beauty.It only brings pain and detest with sole banality.

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