All 4 Uses

grotesque
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Francie looked and saw, not the baby's foot, but a grotesque thing in a big, worn-out shoe.†
Chpt 1 *
There were always two boys who did a grotesque dance together, mimicking the girls and bumping into them rudely.†
Chpt 13
Francie thought the revolver looked like a grotesque beckoning finger, a finger that beckoned to death and made it come running.†
Chpt 33
The garments had frozen into grotesque shapes and didn't want to come in through the window.†
Chpt 35

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.