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grotesque
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Carrie, by Stephen King
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- It was a strangely froggy sound, grotesquely apt, and the girls giggled again.†
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- Sometimes, like now, the ivy looked like a grotesque giant hand ridged with great veins which had sprung up out of the ground to grip the building.†
- The Jesus impaled upon it was frozen in a grotesque, muscle-straining rictus of pain, mouth drawn down in a groaning curve.†
- Her bloody mouth made the smile grotesque, twisted.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
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ugly, gross, or very wrong -
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(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.