Crossword clues for grotesquery
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
n. That which is grotesque in nature or style.
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.