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Meanings of
grotesquerie
in English
Catalan
ridiculesa
Spanish
caricatura
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Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
grotesqueness
grotesquery
Catalan
ridiculesa
Spanish
literatura grotesca
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Science fiction genre.
Related terms
science fiction genre
literary genre
Spanish
literatura grotesca
Usage of
grotesquerie
in English
1
Is all the
grotesquerie
worth it for that small moment of retribution?
2
She backed away from this
grotesquerie
,
flattening herself against the steam-wetted tiles.
3
Another
grotesquerie
is being hastily planned for the nation's capital, Ottawa.
4
Avun studied the corpse-faced
grotesquerie
in front of him, and made no response.
5
With horrid
grotesquerie
it flapped toward another candle, bent on putting it out.
6
Those who favoured
grotesquerie
and mytho-beast appearances had departed with Ekelund.
7
Not the perverse
grotesquerie
we were supposedly fighting to preserve.
8
It is Spenser and Hogarth combined-thewildest
grotesquerie
wrought on a background of penal flame.
9
Leaving screams from the vineyard workers who saw their lost lovers and children reanimated into this
grotesquerie
.
10
Nothing derails a conversation like medical
grotesquerie
.
11
Another kind of intrusion is a
grotesquerie
.
12
If Scummy had been alone he would likely have driven past this
grotesquerie
without even registering its existence.
13
The scene itself remained clear, with the grinning
grotesquerie
of the Jack-o'-lanterns lighting it and mocking his simplicity.
14
The feast is magnificent, but as we eat, I feel a sense of
grotesquerie
that's hard to ignore.
15
Yet the
grotesquerie
of the streets, however horrible, did not arouse in Rage the same dread as the black dome.
16
A dumb show began, a
grotesquerie
of the act of love; but he was unresponsive, and she soon abandoned the attempt.
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About this term
grotesquerie
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
face grotesquerie
favour grotesquerie
flabby grotesquerie
grin grotesquerie
mad grotesquerie
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Translations for
grotesquerie
Catalan
ridiculesa
Spanish
caricatura
distorsión
extravagancia
literatura grotesca
grotesquerie
Grotesquerie
through the time