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also grotesquery
as in monster
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
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Recent Examples of grotesquerie
Platter can hardly go more than a few pages without noting one grotesquerie or another.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2025
The director’s lifelong interest in the tenderness and grotesquerie is immediately apparent and presented with the kind of frenzied confidence that continues to make del Toro’s work feel explosive even as studios have made his movies more expensive and polished.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
8 Dec. 2025
Coll’s early works, with their prickly eclecticism and their fondness for instrumental grotesquerie, reflect the influence of Adès and György Ligeti, among others.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grotesquerie
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence.
—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2025
The director’s lifelong interest in the tenderness and grotesquerie is immediately apparent and presented with the kind of frenzied confidence that continues to make del Toro’s work feel explosive even as studios have made his movies more expensive and polished.
—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
8 Dec. 2025
Coll’s early works, with their prickly eclecticism and their fondness for instrumental grotesquerie, reflect the influence of Adès and György Ligeti, among others.
—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grotesquerie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grotesquerie
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Or will the monsters get in their way?
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Making matters worse, Christophe has a spinal condition that requires him to wear a massive metal back brace 24/7, turning him into a pre-teen metal monster.
Noun
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The idea behind [the brand] actually came from my graduation thesis on the concept of the grotesque.
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The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle.
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“Grotesquerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotesquerie. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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