Both Uses of
grotesque
in
Oliver Twist
- Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.†
Chpt 24 *
- Bolter's humble servant,' said Fagin, bowing with grotesque politeness.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong