Thesaurus results for GROTESQUERIES

grotesqueries

noun

plural of grotesquerie

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 Neill Blomkamp has yet to top District 9, but this one comes closest to matching his debut’s wry social commentary and borderline-comedic grotesqueries. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 As in Pillion and elsewhere, Melling imbues a premise’s potential grotesqueries with real and specific feelings. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026 The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025

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Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

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Oh, and a seventh-circle’s worth of personal demons which, big break or not, show no signs of giving Green a rest.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026
The original seven-season series followed Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, a young woman who slays vampires, demons and other supernatural creatures with the help of her friends.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 13 Sep. 2026

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