All 5 Uses of
grotesque
in
Main Street
- Or creamy-skinned fat women, smeared with grease and chalk, gorgeous in the skins of beasts and the bloody feathers of slain birds, playing bridge with puffy pink-nailed jeweled fingers, women who after much expenditure of labor and bad temper still grotesquely resemble their own flatulent lap-dogs?†
Chpt 3
- Ten minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon grotesquely ruddy Yankee heads above Oriental robes, and cried to them, "The Princess Winky Poo salutes her court!"†
Chpt 6 *
- He marched from the room, a grotesque figure in baggy union-pajamas.†
Chpt 14
- She was curiously exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands.†
Chpt 18
- It was not well drawn; it was too finicking; the pillars in the background were grotesquely squat.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong