grotesqueness

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With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020

In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2019

The aliens' look is unconvincing and forgettable, lacking either the deliberate cheesiness of "They Live" or the believability and grotesqueness of "Starship Troopers" and "District 9."

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2019

Newcastle's grotesqueness was part of his temperament, for all through his life his jealousy and suspicion kept him in a perpetual froth of nervous excitement.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose