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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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The film, set between the years 1945 and 1947, depicts a society struggling to recover from war, only to be reduced, once again, by the arrival of a kaiju (as giant monsters are known in Japanese, and to fans of the corresponding film genre).

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
The fight scene rules, and there are much, much worse things for kids to see than CGI monsters grievously injuring one another.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026

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The anti-catalog exposed, after the fact of the Bicentennial, the grotesqueries of corporate beneficence and private boosters that had supplemented the government’s project.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
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

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In 1974 the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons first appeared, and later editions featured such character types as devils and demons.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Other popular depictions of ghouls conflated them with monsters such as zombies and demons.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

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