grotesquery
Americannoun
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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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It’s easy to sneer at Morris’s antics, but beneath the grotesquery is a real hunger.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
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
The brilliance of the novel’s central idea is in its combination of Swiftian grotesquery and creepy plausibility.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2014
Mr. Six does not deny that his movie was designed to provoke, and is happy to capitalize on anything that burnishes its reputation for over-the-top grotesquery.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011
For all his outer grotesquery, the noble simplicity of the verse matched some veiled and hitherto but half-expressed quality within him, and dignified him.
From The Unspeakable Perk by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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