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Meanings of grotesque in English

Russian
гротеск
Portuguese
grotesco
Spanish
grotesco
Catalan
grotesc
Wikidata

Art style.

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        гротеск
        Spanish
        quimera

        Fantastic or mythical figure used as architectural element.

              quimera

              Ludicrously odd.

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                    Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.

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                          Usage of grotesque in English
                          1
                          Yet still we construct a grotesque edifice that denies such common sense.
                          The Guardian
                          2
                          He saw in the garden more corpses in tragic and grotesque postures.
                          The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
                          3
                          It is hard to imagine ourselves as the perpetrators of grotesque violence.
                          The Irish Times
                          4
                          My mind had apparently updated his grotesque to conform to new information.
                          Seraphina
                          5
                          She did not see the grotesque and ghostly objects in the gloom.
                          Their Yesterdays
                          6
                          A million dollars' worth of grotesque Mexican artifacts mounted on the walls.
                          The Book of Skulls
                          7
                          The disciples stood around the saint in grotesque attitudes of pious attention.
                          The Garden of Allah
                          8
                          They do not mar if they do not help the grotesque minuet.
                          A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
                          9
                          His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas which ended in laughter.
                          Eve's Ransom
                          10
                          Mr Sarkozy denies having received Libyan money and calls the accusations grotesque.
                          The Irish Times
                          11
                          Of course the character is formal, and in some respects even grotesque.
                          Lectures and Essays
                          12
                          He carried out his grotesque mission with meticulous planning and astonishing speed.
                          The Guardian
                          13
                          All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.
                          The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
                          14
                          The beach was alive with the gorgeous grotesque figures of the bathers.
                          The Fatal Glove
                          15
                          In so doing they helped inflate the bubble economy to grotesque proportions.
                          The Return of Depression Economics
                          16
                          Once more the rocks took on grotesque shapes-utterlyultra-human in their suggestiveness.
                          The River and I
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                          Translations for grotesque
                          Portuguese
                          grotesco
                          Catalan
                          grotesc
                          Grotesque through the time
                          Grotesque across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          Ireland
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common