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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

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As creatures from Indonesian mythology emerge to threaten his students’ community, Chris and his pupils find their fight extends beyond monsters to their own inner struggles.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
The viruses the researchers created are not Frankenstein’s monsters.

— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026

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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

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