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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
- They're sitting in a semi-circle around a grotesque-looking figure, a scarecrowlike effigy.p. 360.5
- He doesn't want to startle them, strain their politeness, cross their boundaries without being invited — loom up on them suddenly out of the shrubbery, like some grotesque flasher exposing himself to schoolkids.p. 153.9
- But in the time it takes him to cover the distance, slip-stepping as if in some grotesque dance with the pigoons still staring, dark clouds have come boiling up from the south, blotting out the sun.p. 235.9
There are no more uses of "grotesque" in Oryx and Crake.
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