Grotesque is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GROTESQUE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an extravagant piece of art
• a very ugly or comically distorted figure or image
• a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.
• a family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces.
• A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
• Artificial grotto-work.
• art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
• grotesque person or thing
ADJECTIVE:
• extravagantly formed, fantastic; bizarre
• comically or repulsively ugly or distorted
• incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree
• strangely distorted
• distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
• ludicrously odd
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature; a piece of work in this style

Words related to GROTESQUE

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Words that contain GROTESQUE

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How to use GROTESQUE in a sentence

• They were filled with flickering, grotesque shadows cast by the dripping light above.
• In grotesque juxtaposition he remembered, together with that picture of Sylvia as he had seen her last night, the case of a respectable old lady, named Mrs.
• It has grotesque details, including a camel, giant negroes and skeletons, and it was designed by the architect of S.
• About her was a flare of torches and the grotesque play of shadows between the grotto-like walls of an abandoned coal mine.
• And the hail itself takes on grotesque proportions, becomes inordinately long, an infinity of hall, fading away into time and distance.
• The note of the best of them was a happy sincerity even in egotism, a simplicity even in describing the most monstrous and grotesque events.
• There was even the germ of it in the grotesque medicine-man encountered by David Brainerd.
• Sometimes a cocked hat is substituted for the horns, and the skull of a dog or monkey used, which renders their appearance, if possible, still more grotesque.
• He glanced backwards a few hours into the past, and he simply could not comprehend how it was that he had been so upset by the grotesque scene with Mr.
• Consequently, in place of the supreme picture of womanly purity he intended, he produced what is no better than a grotesque caricature.
• The frieze now was more grotesque than ever, but had changed suddenly to an equestrian one, sharply outlined against the deep-blue Egyptian sky.
• All kinds of surprises, picturesque and grotesque effects, and practical jokes, had been prepared by the ingenious, but somewhat childish skill of the architect.
• Everything he saw was familiar yet grotesque in the way it had become dwarfed.
• That young person was much more interested in their history than they supposed, and as she descended the stairs she lifted her eyes and hands in grotesque amazement.
• Why this contempt of his for the idealist, the reformer? He classes all sorts of grotesque, half-insane people with the high-minded thinkers of the East.

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