Grotesque is an English word with synonyms like monstrous or art. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grotesque in a sentence
Related words
Grotesque meaning
- Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
- Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
- Sans serif.
Synonyms of Grotesque
Using Grotesque
- The main meaning on this page is: Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way. | Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting. | Sans serif.
- Useful related words include: monstrous, art, unusual, strange.
- In the example corpus, grotesque often appears in combinations such as: grotesque and, the grotesque, and grotesque.
Context around Grotesque
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grotesque
- In this selection, "grotesque" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, faced, indeed, saw, dwarves, theatricality and military stand out and add context to how "grotesque" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abuses as grotesque and as a grotesque symbol of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grotesque" sits close to words such as ababa, accommodating and adhered, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grotesque
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That’s grotesque, and Republicans know it. (7 words)
Squidward turns frantic after seeing his neighbor's grotesque transformation. (10 words)
Kansas recently enacted a statute paving the way for grotesque intrusions. (11 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (29 words)
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". (28 words)
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.
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.
That’s grotesque, and Republicans know it.
Common combinations with grotesque
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- grotesque and 24×
- the grotesque 15×
- and grotesque 14×
- of grotesque 8×
- is grotesque 8×
- or grotesque 6×
- as grotesque 6×
- more grotesque 5×
- to grotesque 5×
- in grotesque 4×