grotesque
Example Sentences
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From a grotesque 230% valuation gap to a ticking energy crisis, this unstoppable market is more fragile than it looks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"I don't think there is anything to celebrate. It seems like a pretty grotesque situation to me," said 26-year-old Carmen Ponce, whose brother Victor Hugo was disappeared in 2020.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Instead, his grotesque behavior backfired and has drawn even more insults and rejections.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
This is a horrible, grotesque, and ongoing wrong, and that’s the level at which we need to engage.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing grotesque
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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