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Answer for the clue "Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion ", 11 letters:
grotesquery

Word definitions for grotesquery in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
grotesquery \gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also grotesquerie .] Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. ``The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top.'' --K. L. Bates. Syn: grotesqueness. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. That which is grotesque in nature or style.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: grotesqueness , grotesquerie ]

Usage examples of grotesquery.

When he found himself contemplating how much moisture the unpretentious little grotesqueries might contain, he turned away in disgust.

World, with all its physical horrors and grotesqueries shall reign unchallenged in the universe.

Some of the effect, he was sure, was sensetwist, the strange swim and shimmer of passing students, their aura, their iridescence, but how to explain the grotesqueries of their faces and the way their proteanskins melted into motley?

But Chaikhe concentrated deliberately on the horror of Gerlach, his oiliness, the grotesqueries of his waddling gait and panting wheezes for breath, learning what m'metanei called hate, a disunity beyond e-takkhe, a desire beyond vaikka-nasul, a lust beyond reason.