All 8 Uses of
grotesque
in
The War of the Worlds
- Across the light huge black shapes, grotesque and strange, moved busily to and fro.†
Chpt 1.11
- The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.†
Chpt 1.14
- We would race across the kitchen in a grotesque way between eagerness and the dread of making a noise, and strike each other, and thrust and kick, within a few inches of exposure.†
Chpt 2.3
- Grotesque gleam of a time no history will ever fully describe!
Chpt 2.7 *grotesque = distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
- Grotesque and foolish as this will seem to the sober reader, it is absolutely true, and what is more remarkable, I found the card game and several others we played extremely interesting.†
Chpt 2.7
- I remained a very long time upon the roof, wondering at the grotesque changes of the day.†
Chpt 2.7
- At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time—a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place.†
Chpt 2.9
- Most of it was in blank, but the solitary compositor who did the thing had amused himself by making a grotesque scheme of advertisement stereo on the back page.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, grotesque can refer to a style of art or instances of it that combines or distorts in a fanciful way natural forms into something that is often ugly or disturbing. Grotesque can also be used specifically to reference a gargoyle-like sculpture without a waterspout.