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grotesques

  • plural
    of grotesque.
    grotesque
    adjective
    odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.

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Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston