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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"
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
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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