grotesque

Competitors are judged on their ability to pull the ugliest or most grotesque face.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Mukbangers, content creators who eat grotesque amounts of food on camera, frequently feature fried chicken.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

And Neill relished that ability, returning time and again to characters whose unpredictability mirrored life’s, creating an oeuvre that is both grotesque and supremely human.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Southern writers were drawn to the grotesque, Flannery O’Connor wrote, because they conceived of humankind theologically, in relation to the Fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

But my pride gets in the way of agreeing to such a grotesque lie.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2022

"Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin