grotesque

• His attention was never distracted by the sketches which he drew without ceasing, during the course of the debates--grotesque and humorous figures, much in demand by every one present as mementos of the Conference Next on the right sat David Lloyd George, with thick gray hair and snapping Celtic eyes. —  Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
• To me, these lines on the purple lily are not only ugly and grotesque--in that kind of ugliness which "was to Browning not in the least a necessary evil, but a quite unnecessary luxury, to be enjoyed for its own sake"--but are monstrously (more than any other instance I can recall) unsuited to the mind from which they are supposed to come New-blown and ruddy as St. Agnes' nipple Plump as the flesh-bunch on some Turk-bird's poll One such example is enough. —  Browning's Heroines
• The features are strongly pronounced, and at times verge upon the grotesque--we mean it in no offensive spirit. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• He loved the fantastic, the bizarre, the grotesque--for the latter quality he endured the literary work of Berlioz, hating all the while his music. —  Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
• Suddenly she felt her train to be [v]grotesque, as a thing following her in a nightmare A moment later she caught her partner making a [v]burlesque face of suffering over her shoulder, and, turning her head quickly, saw for whose benefit he had constructed it. —  The Literary World Seventh Reader

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