What is "grotesquely"

Usage examples of "grotesquely".

Het ankles were grotesquely edematous, swollen like sausages and bruised an angry purple.

This hideous figure stood for a long minute surveying the crowd, silently, grotesquely, like a frankensteinian monster.

Where the narrow strata had once comprised an ordered map of geohistory, it had now been split by successive upheavals into a jagged mosaic that lined the walls of the gorge like some immense, grotesquely abstract artwork.

Bizarrely, I catch a glimpse of myself in a gilded mirror: a headless, traumatized figure in gore-rimmed torn pajamas, drink in hand, floating the lamest of bons mots at a crowd of swank, grotesquely ignorant party-goers -- in a warm, sumptuous paradise of a room, amid ornate carpets and polished things gleaming in lamplight.

I felt him turning and wriggling about as he looked back at the terrible receding city, ahead at the cave-riddled, cube-barnacled peaks, sidewise at the bleak sea of snowy, rampart-strewn foothills, and upward at the seething, grotesquely clouded sky.

We merely stress the Eristic as a balance, because human society has been tilted grotesquely toward the Aneristic side all through the Piscean age.

Grotesquely shaped in the glimmer of the street lamps, the mysterious master was crossing the avenue to reach the street from which Shakes Niefan had emerged.

Its legs were short but the arms were as grotesquely long as the forelimbs of a crab spider.

I saw some grotesquely merged, glandlike protuberances that emitted an opaque light.

Woodforest Gardens north of the city, choking on all of those cookie-cutter houses with their perfect lawns, grotesquely manicured shrubberies, and insipid street names like Shady Lane.

Answering bursts from fearsomely powerful arrays streaked toward the task force as spiraling golden projectiles, grotesquely beautiful against the starfield.

But before the hand could reach the face, one of the eyes launched itself from its socketlike a grape squeezed from its skinand dangled grotesquely by red strands of muscle fiber.

Sporadic flashes of lightning made wan flickers behind the cloudbank, silhouetting for an instant dim patterns grotesquely writhing against the heavens.

He'd just sort of seepily risen, some sort of human radon, from someplace low and unknown, whence he lent the cliche 'Win or Die in the Attempt' grotesquely literal new levels of sense.

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of the evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.