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also grotesquery
as in grotesque
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie
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Recent Examples of grotesquerie
Lankov argues that this is a convoluted distortion of one of the real-life grotesqueries of North Korean life.
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Will Sommer, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
The show both mirrors and skewers the grotesqueries of online life.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
As a case in point, the recent British referendum over the United Kingdom’s membership in the EU was a reckless gamble that took a very real issue—the need for more open and legitimate contestation in the EU—and turned it into a political grotesquerie of shamelessly opportunistic political elites.
—Kathleen R. McNamara, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2016
Doja later clarified the origins of the tattoo in question—a part-human, part-animal creature—by sharing the source material to Instagram; the 1616 artwork De Monstris by Fortunio Licenti, which depicts several such grotesqueries combining human features with elements nature.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 June 2023
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Will Sommer, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
The show both mirrors and skewers the grotesqueries of online life.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
As a case in point, the recent British referendum over the United Kingdom’s membership in the EU was a reckless gamble that took a very real issue—the need for more open and legitimate contestation in the EU—and turned it into a political grotesquerie of shamelessly opportunistic political elites.
—Kathleen R. McNamara, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2016
Doja later clarified the origins of the tattoo in question—a part-human, part-animal creature—by sharing the source material to Instagram; the 1616 artwork De Monstris by Fortunio Licenti, which depicts several such grotesqueries combining human features with elements nature.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 June 2023
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“Grotesquerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotesquerie. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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