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
Suetonius detailed Emperor Domitan’s nighttime events, highlighting the grotesqueness of gladiatrices fighting in the shadows.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024
The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020
A bald head, with a fringe round it of snow white hair, completed the grotesqueness.
From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford
