From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgrotesquegro‧tesque1 /ɡrəʊˈtesk $ ɡroʊ-/ ●○○ adjective1SHOCKunpleasant, shocking, and offensive
It’s grotesque to portray peace campaigners as unpatriotic.
By modern standards, the treatment of prisoners was grotesque.2UGLYextremely ugly in a strange or unnatural way
a grotesque figure with a huge head —grotesquely adverbExamples from the Corpusgrotesque• One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.• The scaffoldingtumbled down, burying him under a grotesque criss-cross of beams and posts.• He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to performgrotesquedance movements that were not without some grace.• I was not her troublesomedoll, then, her grotesqueduty.• The news showed grotesque film clips of people being attacked by dogs.• The boy was twisting one side of his face in grotesqueimitation of his grandfather.• In all my fatty, even grotesqueinnocence they consumed me, wherever I went, on whomever I smiled.• It also brings with it bad luck and a grotesquelitany of deaths.• "The disease can also cause grotesquelumps under the skin, " Ketch said.• At the very least I claim to be pitiful, grotesque, or appalling.• In the bar, a singlecandle threw grotesqueshadows across the ceiling.grotesquegrotesque2 noun1[countable]UGLY a picture, sculpture etc of someone who is strangely ugly2 →the grotesqueExamples from the Corpusgrotesque• The rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques, but are harmless.• He eased inside Rosie with her pants still on, they rolled around each other like grotesques.Origingrotesque1(1500-1600)FrenchOld Italian(pittura) grottesca“cave painting”, from grotta; → GROTTO
