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grotesque
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Washington Black
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You would rather suffer the grotesque than know beauty first-hand.†
p. 69.7
The grotesque?†
p. 69.7
What a grotesque creature peered back at me.†
p. 79.9 *
I feared my eye would not recover; I feared my face in all its new grotesqueness.†
p. 83.1
I could only pray he would spare me the agony of grotesquely drawing it out.†
p. 114.7
It would have been difficult on such a ship to conceal so grotesque an endeavour.†
p. 133.7
It is grotesquely large.†
p. 150.9
There was a quiet lawlessness to it all that was often grotesque.†
p. 218.1

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.