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grotesqueness

[ UK /ɡɹə‍ʊtˈɛsknəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion

How To Use grotesqueness In A Sentence

  • Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
  • I, Darrell Standing, was the linking personality that connected all bizarreness and grotesqueness. Chapter 6
  • Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
  • I stare at the painted q-tip in my fingers and smile at the grotesqueness of it all. Volcano
  • The last part explores the values and significance of the characteristic of grotesqueness of network literature from its grotesque features, that is, unofficial, legal and Utopian.
  • It was only the rather comic grotesqueness seen sometimes in the face of a little child when he is what his mother calls a naughty boy, and distends his mouth and closes his eyes for a genuine howl. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea
  • At least that's what I found anyway when I saw one gruesome seens (none of the scenes were close the "grotesqueness" of the Saw and Hostel movie series), but a few of them did strike a nerve for a short while anyway I must admit. Undefined
  • Even in its miraculous element it stands to some extent in contrast with all mythologies, where the marvelous has ever a predominant character of grotesqueness which is absent from New Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
  • The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor. The Benefit of the Doubt
  • From its opening moments, the film alternates wide-angle panoramas with screen-popping close-ups of the actors, most of whom seem to have been picked for their grotesqueness.
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