grotesquery
Americannoun
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grotesqueries
plural
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grotesque character.
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something grotesque.
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grotesque ornamental work.
noun
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the state of being grotesque
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something that is grotesque, esp an object such as a sculpture
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of grotesquery
From the French word grotesquerie, dating back to 1555–65. See grotesque, -ery
Example Sentences
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Schoenberg expunged tonality, with its too predictable pull on the emotions, creating a sensation with his own surreal grotesquery, “Pierrot Lunaire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
But just as I was beginning to fall under my host’s charming spell, my attention was seized by an item of such alarming grotesquery that I tremble even now to recount it in full.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2020
But far exceeding the aesthetic wound of the memorial is the grotesquery of the betrayal it represents.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2015
The brilliance of the novel’s central idea is in its combination of Swiftian grotesquery and creepy plausibility.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2014
Once more the grim humor of the situation, the grotesquery of it, became apparent to Trent.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Lauren is a ceramic artist whose porcelains sport signature grotesqueries, usually of a squirmy sort, such as a teapot with “a revolting brown worm crawling along the spout,” and “a slug depicted on the underside.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
A recent series pays tributes to Goya’s “Caprichos,” capturing grotesqueries and folly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
If these grotesqueries also felt as if they came from the wellspring of Roupenian’s literary imagination, I’d applaud the bold bait-and-switch.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
Esteban allowed this invasion of grotesqueries because he had long ago realized that it was pointless to interfere in his wife’s life.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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