gargoyle
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A host of celebrity judges have to decide whether they’re seeing an elaborate cake or Halloween decor like a jack-o-lantern, a black cat and a gargoyle.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
"I see a gargoyle... something horrible, disgusting," she tells the BBC.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
Kimbrough also lent his voice to a gargoyle named Victor in Disney’s animated film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2023
His villainy is like a gargoyle — inert and thoroughly grotesque.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021
The officer bends forward and looms over the miniature city like some tormented gargoyle.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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