noun
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A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
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Anything grotesque.
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A sans serif typeface.
adjective
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Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.
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Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
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Sans serif.
Examples of grotesque in a Sentence
It was something grotesque, but definitely not a skeleton.
It often yawns when disturbed in the daytime, gaping its mandibles in a very grotesque manner.
Lovely incrustations alternate with queer and grotesque figures.
The work is highly imaginative and often grotesque, but it is pervaded by an unusually high ethical enthusiasm.
These masks may have grotesque or human features.
That even in early times the masses were never shaken in their attachment to the traditional faith, with all its crude and grotesque conceptions, is due to the zeal of the ulcma (clergy).
The branches cling to the wall by small rootlets, as in the Ivy, and when allowed to ramble at will are very grotesque, ascending trees or walls to a considerable height, and requiring no nailing and little attention.
You can look mystical, grotesque, monstrous, animalistic, ghoulish, and ultimately freaky when wearing a pair of their contact lenses.
On its death, the body was sent to Mr Charles Waterton, of Walton Hall, by whom the skin was mounted in a grotesque manner, and the skeleton given to the Leeds museum.
With these may be named the demon lantern-bearers, so perfect in the grotesque treatment of the diabolical heads and the accurate anatomical forms of the sturdy body and limbs; the colossal temple guardians of the great gate of Tdai-ji, by Unkei and Kwaikei (11th century), somewhat conventionalized, but still bearing evidence of direct study from nature, and inspired with intense energy of action; and the smaller but more accurately modelled temple guardians in the Saikondo, Nara, which almost compare with the fighting gladiator in their realization of menacing strength.
This may illustrate the fact that the dragon is also unmentioned in the Hebrew cosmogony; to some writers the dragon-element may have seemed grotesque and inappropriate.
From Honduras to Panama the urn burials, the pottery, the rude carved images and, above all, the grotesque jewellery, absorb the archaeologist's attention.
His figure is that of a grotesque mountebank, intended to inspire joy or drive away pain and sorrow, his hideousness being perhaps supposed actually to scare away the evil spirits.
The fabliaux, the early burlesque romances of the Audigier class, the farces of the t5th century, equal (the grotesque iteration and amplification which is the note of Gargantua and Pantagruel being allowed for, and sometimes without that allowance) the coarsest passages of Rabelais.
For war the natives smear themselves in grotesque fashion with lime or ochres, and in some parts hold in their teeth against the chin a face-like mask, supposed to strike terror into the foe, against whom they advance warily (if not timidly), yelling and blowing their war-trumpets.
Such myths were often based on grotesque philological analogies, according to which an existing connexion between two personalities (cities, &c.) was traced back to a common mythical origin.
Its grotesque external ornamentation earned for it the name of Duivelshuis, or devil's house.
The All-Father, even at his best, among the Kurnai, Kamilaroi and Euahlayi, is the centre of many grotesque and sportive myths.
His bike lay several feet from him, its front wheel still turning lazily, its back wheel twisted at a grotesque angle.
As the pace of life becomes more frantic the value of introspection becomes diminished except in art where it is encouraged to become grotesque.
After her life in the country, and in her present serious mood, all this seemed grotesque and amazing to Natasha.
Most, if not all, of his wonderful attributes may be ascribed to the Irish predilection for the grotesque.
For his next four pieces, which were comedies, there is claimed the introduction of some important improvements, such as the choosing for scenes places well known in actual life (as in the Galerie du palais), and the substitution of the soubrette in place of the old inconvenient and grotesque nurse.
To explain these, myths have been developed to show that they arose in some grotesque incident of Baiame's personal existence on earth.
Today's leaked memo on inward investment is therefore a grotesque distortion of Britain's inward investment success.
In medieval literature the most sacred persons of our religion have grotesque associations attached to them in the same manner.
But in grotesque and savage points of faith the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Vedic Indians ran even the Aztecs pretty close.
Its façade is remarkable for its richly sculptured decorations of grotesque figures and beasts, which are of two different dates, about 1000 and about 1200.
It wasn't the grotesque sinewy chest of a body builder, but the well developed chest of a swimmer.
Visions of Czerno and home videos from Darian morphed into a grotesque nightmare that made her body shake, even as she tried to push the dream from her thoughts.
Dean didn't turn around to view the next potential treasure but loaded his arms with two boxes—a "bloody" axe, grotesque mask, assorted bric-a-brac—and crossed to his vehicle.
He would have nothing grotesque or obscure; he would not even have anything emphatic or even anything mysterious.
Instead of concrete feed towers and 100 or so grotesque concrete pens, I now see slender young cherry trees and limes.
You truly can create your own creatures however you see fit, whether it be a grotesque being from another planet or a pseudo-emulation of a popular celebrity.
Like any purely allegorical performance, the gestures and emotions portrayed are large and sometimes even grotesque, and this has been some of the criticism of the production.
Wooden masks employed in the ancient theatrical performances were made from the 7th century, and offer a distinct and often grotesque phase of wood-carving.
As a general rule, an agreeable grotesque of the affairs of life (a grotesque which never loses hold of good taste sufficiently to be called burlesque) occupies him.
The Greeks of that day would have had little respect for a grotesque Egyptian figure, while the Egyptians were more willing to accept divinity in any shape.
In this it resembled the middle ages rather than the Roman empire or the present day, and it resembled them all the more in that its love of beauty, like theirs, was mixed with a feeling for the fantastic and the grotesque.
The attendant slowly withdrew the cover, exposing a grotesque, bloated face.
The little fish, now with a rather grotesque face, starts swimming on its side, with eyes uppermost.
If they see a particularly grotesque corpse they might puke up or lose it altogether and run around hysterically, shooting everyone in sight.
Giant Plants These isolated island habitats have many plants that have evolved to large or even grotesque forms.
General Sarov and his wonderfully grotesque henchman, Conrad, are the baddies in this globetrotting adventure packed with excitement.
The idea that to be at home looking after children is some kind of oppression is quite grotesque.
On a man with a height of less than 8 feet I think this would look rather grotesque.
The painting made Edward's face seem grotesque, but there was a secret to the painting.
The grotesque head stared with angry red eyes and the tongue lolled in its mouth.
The reed cover is pierced and carved with foliage and five grotesque masks.
From the moment Michael Rooker's town bully becomes infected by the parasite, it's a messy thrill-ride of increasingly grotesque adventures.