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grotesqueness



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So do scribbly, charming drawings of a cat and studies of feet that emphasize grotesqueness.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2025

The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2023

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.

From The Guardian Mar. 2, 2020

The mountain lad had suddenly shed his grotesqueness.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck




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