Crossword clues for grotesquerie
grotesquerie
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.
Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie,
wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.
--George
Gissing.
Wiktionary
alt. The quality of being grotesque or macabre. n. The quality of being grotesque or macabre.
WordNet
n. ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: grotesqueness, grotesquery]
Wikipedia
Grotesquerie is a literary form that became a popular genre in the early 20th century. It can be grouped with science fiction and horror. Authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Fritz Leiber, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Stanton A. Coblentz, Lee Brown Coye and Katherine Anne Porter have written books within this genre.
The term has also been used to describe macabre artwork and movies, and it is used in architecture.
Usage examples of "grotesquerie".
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.
The man who'd spotted me drew gradually closer, pretending to read labels along the way, finally sidling in next to me at the counter, the living effigy of a cost accountant or tax lawyer, radiating his special grotesquerie, that of sane men leading normal lives.
If I fail this test, I had as lief seek out the nearest grotesquerie.
No, here the jokers could provide all the grotesquerie required with just their miserable bodies.