grotesqueness

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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

The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2019

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

A bald head, with a fringe round it of snow white hair, completed the grotesqueness.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford