grotesque

Example Sentences

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Symbolically, business turns a blind eye to the wasteland it creates and removes itself from the grotesque horror.

From Washington Post

Brueghel the Younger was famed for his lively depictions of village life, and sometimes known as “Hell Brueghel” because of his fantastical depictions of infernal and grotesque scenes.

From Seattle Times

And in a particularly grotesque example from 1862, D.C. slave owners were given reparations for the loss of the value of freed enslaved people.

From Seattle Times

Leshy, the mysterious game master, had just grabbed a mask of a grotesque angler fisherman.

From The Verge

That suggests that those charged with conspiracy are only one layer, in the grotesque Trump pyramid of lackeys, away from Trump himself.

From Salon