grotesques

noun

plural of grotesque
as in monsters
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature a gallery of grotesques from some horror movie

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Recent Examples of grotesques The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle. — Adam Fox, CBS News, 14 May 2026 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. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 Indeed, compared with the realistically creased faces and hangdog stares of the Cubs, the Boston fans behind them are closer to grotesques, an inhuman crush of caricatures. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026 As the agent rambles, the cameras onstage freeze Tullock’s face at unflattering moments, and the screens behind her display a series of grotesques. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grotesques
  1. monsters
  2. grotesqueries
  3. demons
Noun
  • With its vivid monsters and an emphatic, complex dive into the human heart, Homer has inspired countless adaptations, from stage, screen, television, comics, alongside a continuous stream of new translations.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 July 2026
  • At their Czech–Indian wedding, Jacob and Mia’s tradition-hungry guests unexpectedly begin transforming into flesh-eating monsters.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 July 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • 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
Definition of grotesqueries
Noun
  • Alfred Dreyfus to warn that the ‘demons of antisemitism’ haunting France’s past are again darkening its present.
    — Masha Macpherson, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Philadelphia came back against the Celtics from down 3-1 to exorcise some demons, too.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of demons

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