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Definition of Grotesquerie
1. Noun. Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
Generic synonyms: Ugliness
Derivative terms: Grotesque, Grotesque
Definition of Grotesquerie
1. Noun. The quality of being grotesque or macabre ¹
2. Noun. (literature) A genre of literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grotesquerie
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotesquerie
Literary usage of Grotesquerie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hieroglyphics by Arthur Machen (1902)
"You talk of the "grotesquerie" of "Pickwick," but don't you see that this element
is present in all the masterpieces of the kind? ..."
2. Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt (1913)
"It is the extravagance and grotesquerie, of both language and situation, ...
And this extravagance and grotesquerie have marked his writing from the start. ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... dwarfs, monstrosities, and other diverting grotesquerie—a startling and
wonderful sort of show, as it filed solemnly and silently down the street in the ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"... a curious bit of grotesquerie, not like " Alice in Wonderland " and yet ol
the same school, which is illustrated by many cuts even more grotesque, ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"And there are hints of a delicate grotesquerie equally foreign to that poem, but,
like its delicate finished realism, its miniature description, ..."
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