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Grotesquery   Listen
noun
grotesquery  n.  (Written also grotesquerie)  Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top."
Synonyms: grotesqueness. "Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter."






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"Grotesquery" Quotes from Famous Books



... three men, with one of the three covering him with a sawed-off Winchester. From that to the unhorsing and the binding had been merely a rough-and-tumble half-minute, inasmuch as he was unarmed and the surprise had been complete; but the grotesquery remained. ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde



Words linked to "Grotesquery" :   grotesqueness, grotesquerie, ugliness



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