Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a grotesque manner; very absurdly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a grotesque manner; disgustingly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a grotesque manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a grotesque manner
Etymologies
- grotesque + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sept. 9 Bloomberg -- Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam argued against the government's request for what he called a "grotesquely severe" punishment for his insider- trading convictions.”
“Right after Palin was nominated, I called her grotesquely underqualified to be President, and I was right.”
“At 11 months in Paris, I may even go so far as to use the word grotesquely oversized.”
“There are some signs of a reckoning in sports where teams have grown accustomed to living in a manner that some would call grotesquely and dangerously large.”
“No fan of Marx, Collier writes that the message was "grotesquely" wrong and that "Trade policy is the area of economics least well understood by the NGO world.”
“STENGEL: Well, actually, as you know, Anderson, in the Middle East, I mean, they look at Bush's depiction of Islam and the Middle East as being so broad and kind of grotesquely large and not being subtle enough and not looking at the complexities.”
“A drunk businesswoman who killed a young couple while speeding 'grotesquely' at 113mph in a”
“The tumor had blocked blood circulation to his arm and the arm was grotesquely swollen.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“These locations will be familiar to those who know "A Fan's Notes," as will grotesquely comic developments that recall "An Arsonist's Guide.”
The Washington Post: "Exley," a new comic novel by Brock Clarke
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Did you just insult me?!
Words to use in moments of high frustration that they hopefully won't understand.
naïf, jerk, temerity, presumptuousness, presumptuous, arrogant, impudence, insolence, hick, bitch, asshole, ass and 61 more...
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