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Definition of Grotesquery
1. Noun. Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
Generic synonyms: Ugliness
Derivative terms: Grotesque, Grotesque
Definition of Grotesquery
1. n. Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings.
Definition of Grotesquery
1. Noun. That which is grotesque in nature or style. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grotesquery
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotesquery
Literary usage of Grotesquery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1910)
"In his maturer work, Mark Twain showed a finer and gentler touch, grotesquery
yielding to grace. This was apparent in his personality as well as in his work ..."
2. A Handbook of Public Speaking by John Dolman (1922)
"grotesquery; the distortion of natural objects in fanciful or bizarre ways ...
Good-natured grotesquery has a universal appeal, witness the popularity of ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"Savage philosophy mingles them together in one phantasmagoria of grotesquery and
horror. The line which separates fairies and ogres from the souls of men ..."
4. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... "The Second Advent," a story which opens with a very doubtful miraculous
conception in Arkansas, and leads only to grotesquery and literary disorder. ..."
5. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
""the stubborn crew of Errant Saints,"—without the grotesquery of face and feature,
perhaps, but certainly with all the plainness and gracelessness of ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"If he was grotesque, it was with the grotesquery of the bizarre and sinister
figures of the first French Empire, and he was standing where vehemence ..."
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