grotesque
/ɡɹoʊˈtɛsk/ adjective C1- Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
- Disgusting or otherwise viscerally revolting.
- Sans serif.
Comparative grotesquer · Superlative grotesquest
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Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque.
Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne’s hair at that moment.
Before him rose a grotesque mass of rocks, that resembled nothing so much as a vast fire petrified at the moment of its most fervent combustion.
Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France may perchance have noticed, about midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde,—a little nearer to the former than to the latter,—a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard.
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