Thesaurus results for GROTESQUERY

grotesquerie

noun

grō-ˈte-skə-rē

variants 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. —

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

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Noun

Rather than lean on typical monster movies and slasher horror that can always make bank in the movie theater, the biggest horror properties on TV are all across the map.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
The Knicks, shorthanded without Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart, didn’t let them — and a monster performance from Mitchell Robinson helped punch a 101-92 victory over the worst team in basketball on Friday night.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026