Definition of Grotesquely

1. Adverb. In a grotesque manner. "Behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies"

Exact synonyms: Monstrously
Partainyms: Grotesque, Monstrous

Definition of Grotesquely

1. adv. In a grotesque manner.

Definition of Grotesquely

1. Adverb. In a grotesque manner; disgustingly. ¹

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Definition of Grotesquely

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotesquely

grossly
grossness
grossnesses
grosso modo
grossular
grossularia
grossularite
grossularites
grossulars
grossulin
grosz
grosze
groszy
grot
grotesque
grotesquely (current term)
grotesqueness
grotesquenesses
grotesquerie
grotesqueries
grotesquery
grotesques
grots
grottier
grottiest
grotto
grottoed
grottoes
grottolike
grottos

Literary usage of Grotesquely

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"He was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, a long coat, and a dagger of lath ; and one of his chief employments was to make sport with the devil, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... strike into it They have none of those grotesquely conceived animals executed on steatite or other soft stones which abound ou the earliest Greek gems. ..."

3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"... peasants grotesquely comic, pregnant women, touchingly serious and reminiscent of Flemish pictures, little apes like the Astartes on the tombs of the ..."

4. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"produce, grotesquely, an effect that was almost picturesque. Yet, with all this outward lack of allurement, her heart was kind, her temper was humane, ..."

5. China: The Country and Its People by George Waldo Browne (1901)
"This rule looks simple, but when we find that different significations are given grotesquely-SHAPED ROCKS. ..."

6. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1899)
"LINDSAY SWIFT has written the definitive story of that grotesquely romantic episode in New England Transcendentalism, the socialistic experiment made at ..."

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