Definitions
Etymologies
- From the French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone.”
“The first-person voice is amazing--the narrator's funny and warm and entirely persuasive and completely likeable--and it's got the right kind of grotesquerie to really conjure up the memory of life as a young person.”
“I resort to voting Republican, myself, but Kaus shows integrity and originality and, big bonus, seems to get the grotesquerie of our hide-bound institutions, corrupted ways andmeans.”
“With the National Defense Authorization Act about to become law and SOPA on the brink of it, we are facing new challenges that do not merely fail to address the grotesquerie of the Bush/Cheney years; they are deepening and extending the violations.”
The Huffington Post: Jack Healey: Can Human Rights Be Saved?
“The word "Watercolour" this being Britain, it gets a "u" occupies the center of a wall in the museum's lobby, hovering over an image of a Turner landscape blown up to the point of grotesquerie.”
The Washington Post: Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
“So don't fret about distractions like whether or not Murdoch retains his title or position at News Corp. Here's all that matters: this amoral grotesquerie is going to be in the lead of his obituary.”
“The show is meant to be a comedy, and it is — a smart and witty one — but there's no missing, either, under all that grotesquerie, its hard-core sweetness.”
“Many of the visual elements were already there in Guston's early mural period, as was the taste for grotesquerie, sadism and urban violence.”
The Washington Post: Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
“The story pulls no punches on the grotesquerie, but there's a plausible cross-species love story amid the squickiness, and the protagonist makes a decision that actually surprised me.”
MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 1 of 2)
“But, freed from that fortuitous topicality, it is now possible to see the play as a bracing satire which blends the youthful isolation of JD Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye with the comic grotesquerie of Terry Southern's The Magic Christian.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grotesquerie’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Trump that synonym!
Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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kevinofnine's Words
sesquipedalian, pentasyllabic, sobriquet, epistemic, ameliorate, quibble, autological, magniloquent, circumlocutious, quintillion, bookish, tantamount and 139 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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deluge, nightsoil, firestorm, strepsiptera, suture, ghosted, megalomaniac, dysphoric, cardiac, apocrypha, flagellum, grotesquerie and 4 more...
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yvonen's Words
arabesque, lachrymose, unctuous, je ne sais quoi, bromeliad, intense, elide, ne plus ultra, odalisque, picaresque, syllabication, vituberation and 35 more...
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Words 1-3-11
peag, ameliorate, vex, tawdry, sumptuary, padrao, referendum, gulpin, corbana, actuated, landern, grotesquerie and 17 more...
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Literary / Aesthetic
Gongorism, paracinema, avantronica, arrière-garde, chrestomathy, diorama, philological, ideographic, daguerreotype, litterateur, pasticcio, mimeticism and 59 more...
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Word List One
Lubricity, saxonism, oblation, Quince, Decolletage, steatopygous, alarums, hoary, gaffers, sally, sedition, eyrie and 39 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Never heard of it!
Words I'd never heard of before.
plash, enjoin, demiurge, duopsony, wittol, deterge, badious, freekeh, etiolate, shoutcase, hypocoristic, grotesquerie and 7 more...
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john "Set amid the members of a high school faculty, “Miss Guided�? (which begins on Tuesday and then moves to Thursdays) belongs to the universe of stunted-growth comedy. This is a genre that has had a sporadic if successful run on television, beginning with the brilliant “Get a Life�? in the early ’90s, a series that starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy, and getting a kick with “Strangers With Candy,�? a wonderful grotesquerie in which Amy Sedaris wore a fat suit and Howard Hughes toenails to play a 40-ish high school student addicted to adolescent styles of humiliation."
The New York Times, "A Guidance Counselor’s Second (Pained) Adolescence", by Ginia Bellafante, March 18, 2008 Mar 19, 2008