grotesqueness
- a word derived from grotesque.
Example Sentences
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With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
For Angela — for Jude — Tate basically functions as yet another emblem of Bobita’s grotesqueness and of a larger worldview, one that has reduced everything to its market value.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2020
In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2019
That the ideas were very crude and childlike, that they were put together with all manner of grotesqueness, is what might be expected.
From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John
