All 7 Uses
grotesque
in
The Chocolate War
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- He was aware of the other players around him, hel-meted and grotesque, creatures from an unknown world.†
Chpt 1
- The shadows of the goal posts sprawled on the field like grotesque crosses.†
Chpt 2
- Scarlet splotches glistened on his cheeks as if he had been made up for some grotesque stage show.†
Chpt 11
- What was it the guy on the Common had said the other day, his chin resting on the Volkswagen like some grotesque John the Baptist?†
Chpt 18
- The nearby gym was occupied by fellows either practicing basketball or boxing calisthenics and the walls echoed with thuddings, bouncings and whistles blowing, like a grotesque sound track.†
Chpt 25
- was now a grotesque jumble of unconnected letters.†
Chpt 28
- "Kiss me," Janza said, puckering his lips grotesquely.
Chpt 31 *grotesquely = in a gross, distorted and unnatural way
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.