Fantastic or mythical figure used as architectural element.
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.
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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