grotesqueness

Example Sentences

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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

It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2019

The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

And adding to the grotesqueness of the events that day, the police told investigators they believed that a 12-year-old was actually 20 years old.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2015

The figure of the pudgy Jacob in the foreground had a callow grotesqueness.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles