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Meanings of grotesque in English
Synonyms
Examples for "monstrous"
Examples for "monstrous"
1
This monstrous suspension bridge spans the Bosphorus strait connecting Europe to Asia.
2
I have seen slavery; own slaves: there is nothing monstrous in it.
3
Attention to this monstrous crime has been slow coming and sadly predictable.
4
All this was nothing, in appearance; in reality, it was monstrous, amazing.
5
A crisis seemed to rise up monstrous between them, in an instant.
1
Slightly unnatural, shoehorned in with good intentions despite not fitting quite right.
2
In an unnatural situation, this was the most natural place for her.
3
He actually looked quite cute, in an entirely disturbing and unnatural way.
4
To accuse yourself is the natural thing; silence is the unnatural thing.
5
The woman in the narrow bed tossed in a heavy, unnatural sleep.
Usage of grotesque in English
1
Yet still we construct a grotesque edifice that denies such common sense.
2
He saw in the garden more corpses in tragic and grotesque postures.
3
It is hard to imagine ourselves as the perpetrators of grotesque violence.
4
My mind had apparently updated his grotesque to conform to new information.
5
She did not see the grotesque and ghostly objects in the gloom.
6
A million dollars' worth of grotesque Mexican artifacts mounted on the walls.
7
The disciples stood around the saint in grotesque attitudes of pious attention.
8
They do not mar if they do not help the grotesque minuet.
9
His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas which ended in laughter.
10
Mr Sarkozy denies having received Libyan money and calls the accusations grotesque.
11
Of course the character is formal, and in some respects even grotesque.
12
He carried out his grotesque mission with meticulous planning and astonishing speed.
13
All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.
14
The beach was alive with the gorgeous grotesque figures of the bathers.
15
In so doing they helped inflate the bubble economy to grotesque proportions.
16
Once more the rocks took on grotesque shapes-utterlyultra-human in their suggestiveness.
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Grotesque across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common