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Grotesque

Grotesque meaning

Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way. | Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting. | Sans serif.

Example sentences (20)

Grotesque Dwarves Callot's series of "Grotesque Dwarves" were to inspire Derby porcelain and other companies to create pottery figures known as "Mansion House Dwarves" or "Grotesque Dwarves".

With humor, tragedy, and grotesque theatricality, “The Death of Meyerhold” is a play by Mark Jackson that depicts the contradictory life, art, and era of famed Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold with humor, tragedy, and grotesque theatricality.

This is grotesque and it results in an even more grotesque military diplomacy, a diplomacy of sanctions and war, of confrontation rather than collaboration.

ABC news director Justin Stevens also issued a statement backing Grant, saying he had faced “grotesque racial abuse, including threats to his safety”.

A prime example of the genre's originality, a mind-bending adventure of Nyatto, a cat searching for his sister's soul through grotesque magical worlds.

AS Italy mourns Silvio Berlusconi’s death with a grotesque pageantry, it’s worth remembering his role as the founding father of what we still call – cutely – “populism”.

But he is not, not when there is this horrendous and grotesque 2016 oil contract between ExxonMobil and Guyana.

Firstly, it is hard to argue against the statement that is indeed grotesque and cringe-worthy at many points.

He did not fight for a grotesque home secretary to ban a march for peace in remembrance of the dead.

He recovered a stolen M-Vest that helped protect him, but it also projected a grotesque illusion around him.

He rules the roost, demands dinners comprised of candy and peanut-butter-coated hamburgers, and, if his authority is challenged, subjects his relatives to grotesque punishment.

If films like Fight Club and Gone Girl are just a little too heavy, The Game offers the same highs without quite as many grotesque lows.

Kansas recently enacted a statute paving the way for grotesque intrusions.

Nixon’s report, published by us online three months before the government released it last week, described the abuses as “grotesque”.

Other than the ultra-villainous Muzan Kibutsuji, the demons were once innocent or at least somewhat sympathetic human beings, even the grotesque hand demon and the arrogant himedere Daki.

Producers at CRTV superimposed the grotesque military parodies of Zé Bella and The Golden Sounds over sequences of solemn Cameroon military parades on national unification day.

Ron DeSantis just got the deepfake treatment in a grotesque that is both nightmarish and laugh-out-loud funny.

Seneca Scott, a cousin of Coretta Scott King, to the structure as “a grotesque symbol of postmodernism,” “an atrocity,” and, well, a few more graphic descriptions.

She said lawmakers saw “grotesque” photos of the most recent American to die by firing squad, in Utah in 2010.

Squidward turns frantic after seeing his neighbor's grotesque transformation.