grotesqueness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020

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 grotesqueness of some of these sepulchral excrescences may in future centuries be still more apparent, though to many even time cannot supply interest.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall