All 6 Uses

grotesque
in
The Shining
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It was grotesque.†
Chpt 3
He had been out of his chair and around to where she lay dazed on the carpet, brandishing the cane, moving with a fat man's grotesque speed and agility, little eyes flashing, jowls quivering as he spoke to her just as he had always spoken to his children during such outbursts.†
Chpt 4
They were perhaps the final grotesque toy of the unwinding fossil fuel age, given to ten-year-olds for Christmas.†
Chpt 4 *
In front of Derwent and the girl in the sarong, Roger capered grotesquely on all fours, his tail dragging limply behind him.†
Chpt 5
One of them is that you may be the only responsible person left in this grotesque pile.†
Chpt 5
An expression of grotesque terror and dawning realization swept across the broken features of the thing in front of him.†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(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.