grotesquein a sentence
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She was wearing a grotesque mask that was quite disturbing.grotesque = distorted or ugly
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The accident left her grotesquely scarred.grotesquely = badly (or in an ugly, unnatural way)
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It is the result of a grotesque system that distorts good intentions into evil actions.grotesque = terrible (very bad or very wrong)
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It was a grotesque mistake.grotesque = terrible (very wrong)
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The curved mirrors are designed to create grotesque reflections when you look at them.grotesque = distorted
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The disease causes grotesque deformity.grotesque = ugly or distorted
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The gothic church is covered with sculptures of grotesque faces and animals.grotesque = ugly or distorted into unnatural shapes
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No one even dared to look at his grotesque face. (source)grotesque = distorted and unnatural
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The summit proper, a slender rock fin sprouting a grotesque meringue of atmospheric ice, stood twenty feet directly above. (source)grotesque = distorted in a seemingly unnatural way
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The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy's yellow hair. (source)grotesquely = wrong-looking
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...the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction. (source)grotesques = things that are distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
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As if somehow sharing a simple delight in the grotesqueness of that image, she smiled back, and the place noticeably brightened.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just as the Maenads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what that institution was like.† (source)
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I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost threw me off a ledge; I have almost drowned twice—and this is what I can't cope with? (source)grotesque = distorted in an unnatural, disturbing way
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"Kiss me," Janza said, puckering his lips grotesquely. (source)grotesquely = in a gross, distorted and unnatural way
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Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance.† (source)
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They appeared to me white—whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words—and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness—of immoveable resolution—of stern contempt of human torture.† (source)
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His skin was a grotesque shade, a graying blueberry. (source)grotesque = distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
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