All 17 Uses
grotesque
in
Of Human Bondage
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- Other boys saw it and began to laugh; then they all copied the first; and they ran round Philip, limping grotesquely, screaming in their treble voices with shrill laughter.†
Chpt 11-12
- He described one of the vivas with tolerant humour; some fellow in an outrageous collar was asking him questions in logic; it was infinitely tedious, and suddenly he noticed that he wore elastic-sided boots: it was grotesque and ridiculous; so he withdrew his mind and thought of the gothic beauty of the Chapel at King's.†
Chpt 25-26
- She looked grotesque.†
Chpt 33-34
- That knee, it's grotesque.†
Chpt 43-44 *
- The Levantine unfolded a table-cloth, red and yellow, vulgar, hideous, and grotesque.†
Chpt 45-46
- She looked frowsy and grotesque.†
Chpt 45-46
- It was not only that they were ill-drawn, or that the colour was put on amateurishly by someone who had no eye for it; but there was no attempt at getting the values, and the perspective was grotesque.†
Chpt 45-46
- He looked grotesquely British.†
Chpt 47-48
- Her name was grotesque.†
Chpt 57-58
- He was strangely grotesque when he ran.†
Chpt 73-74
- She had the grotesque look of one of those painters' dummies used to hang draperies on.†
Chpt 75-76
- His reason told him that he would get over his unhappiness in time; if he tried with all his might he could forget her; and it would be grotesque to kill himself on account of a vulgar slut.†
Chpt 77-78
- He was pleased with his idea of crowning the dead poet with this; and attempted, notwithstanding Philip's disapproving silence, to fix it on the bald head; but the wreath fitted grotesquely.†
Chpt 85-86
- She lay with her head thrown back and her mouth slightly open; her legs were stretched out, and her boots protruded from her petticoats in a grotesque fashion.†
Chpt 93-94
- While his eyes sought out the newspaper shops to see the war news on the placards, he thought of the scene of the night before: now that it was over and he had slept on it, he could not help thinking it grotesque; he supposed he had been ridiculous, but he was not master of his feelings; at the time they had been overwhelming.†
Chpt 97-98
- With his skull-cap and a crochet shawl over his shoulders he looked grotesque.†
Chpt 107-108
- He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value.†
Chpt 115-116
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) 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.