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grotesquely

adverb as in monstrously

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Such as a scene where a corpse is being disposed of in a grotesque manner while the car radio in the background blasts Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

And did you not also, in between shivers, admire how grotesquely pretty the shot was?

So, this is clearly freakazoid behavior, and is obviously a grotesquely inappropriate thing for a medical professional to do.

In the past, Hamad has suffered some health problems, in part because he has diabetes and used to be grotesquely obese.

A small, if nonsensical, price to pay for America to stop being so grotesquely fat.

Julia Tymoshenko languishes in a prison hospital, her privacy grotesquely invaded (almost every move she makes is videotaped).

Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

A horse or a tree or a clump of brush loomed up grotesquely in the vaporous blur.

The third was a mournful-eyed Schree, clad in an ornamented smock-like garment, from which his thin limbs thrust grotesquely.

He rose, shaking himself together, and his glance fell on the three suspended socks bulging grotesquely.

Nowhere perhaps has the great water erosion of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grotesquely, such as: heinously, hideously, badly, brutally, cruelly, and outrageously.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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