The Only Use of
grotesque
in
The Giver
- 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.
p. 119.2grotesquely = wrong-looking
Definition:
distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong