Both Uses
grotesque
in
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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- His skin was a grotesque shade, a graying blueberry.
p. 32.9 *grotesque = distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
- When she turned around, the beautiful, innocent face was covered in grotesque scars.†
p. 189.8
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.