grotesque
Example Sentences
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From a grotesque 230% valuation gap to a ticking energy crisis, this unstoppable market is more fragile than it looks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
David Plotz: What is a story about the family and the family dynamics that most shocked you, that seemed most grotesque when you told your wife about it?
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026
Carr’s threat is a grotesque distortion of the FCC’s mandate.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
"I don't think there is anything to celebrate. It seems like a pretty grotesque situation to me," said 26-year-old Carmen Ponce, whose brother Victor Hugo was disappeared in 2020.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo’s, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing grotesque
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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