All 9 Uses of
grotesque
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- They were both as grotesque as the scenery, and that looked as if it had come out of a country-booth.†
Chpt 4
- The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.†
Chpt 5 *
- He had seen grotesque children huddled upon doorsteps, and heard shrieks and oaths from gloomy courts.†
Chpt 7
- He never knew—never, indeed, had any cause to know—that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors, and polished metal surfaces, and still water, which came upon the young Parisian so early in his life, and was occasioned by the sudden decay of a beauty that had once, apparently, been so remarkable.†
Chpt 11
- …sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.†
Chpt 11
- Three times the outstretched arms shot up convulsively, waving grotesque stiff-fingered hands in the air.†
Chpt 13
- The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand, and grinned through moving masks.†
Chpt 14
- —more horrible, it seemed to him for the moment, than the silent thing that he knew was stretched across the table, the thing whose grotesque misshapen shadow on the spotted carpet showed him that it had not stirred, but was still there, as he had left it.†
Chpt 14
- Dorian winced, and looked round at the grotesque things that lay in such fantastic postures on the ragged mattresses.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong