grotesquerie

grotesquerie

noun

Definition of GROTESQUERIE

a strange or horrible and often frightening creature <born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie>

Synonyms grotesque, grotesquerie (also grotesquery), monstrosity, ogre

Related Words ogress; Frankenstein; bête noire, bogey (also bogie or bogy), bugaboo, bugbear; banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, fright, imp, incubus; horror, terror; abomination, anathema; abnormality, freak; mutant, mutation

Variants of GROTESQUERIE

grotesquerie also grotesquery