4 uses
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Definition
distorted and unnatural in shape or size — especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong
- Francie looked and saw, not the baby's foot, but a grotesque thing in a big, worn-out shoe.Chapter 1 (80% in)
- There were always two boys who did a grotesque dance together, mimicking the girls and bumping into them rudely.Chapter 13 (61% in)
- Francie thought the revolver looked like a grotesque beckoning finger, a finger that beckoned to death and made it come running.Chapter 33 (30% in)
- The garments had frozen into grotesque shapes and didn't want to come in through the window.Chapter 35 (21% in)
There are no more uses of "grotesque" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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