as in monsters
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 grotesqueries
As in Pillion and elsewhere, Melling imbues a premise’s potential grotesqueries with real and specific feelings.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2026
The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2025
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2026
The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence.
—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grotesqueries
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Based on the popular Quebec comic book created by Samuel Parent and commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Télé-Québec, the series, aimed at 6 to 9-year-olds, follows the adventures of a fearless kid who confronts monsters that haunt children in the darkness of night.
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With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
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The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle.
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The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back.
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For me, the purpose of art is to come to grips with the demons of the past, present, and future; to give form to chaos; to enable us to process fear; and to conceive of a different, more humane future.
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There are highs and lows, angels and demons.
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“Grotesqueries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotesqueries. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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