| 释义 |
grotesquely, adv.|grəʊˈtɛsklɪ|
[f. grotesque a. + -ly2.]
In a grotesque manner; with incongruous absurdity; fantastically, whimsically.
1740H. Walpole Ep. fr. Florence 285 in Dodsley Coll. Poems (1755) III. 80 The wearied arms grotesquely deck the wall. 1814Scott Wav. lxv, His absurdities..had appeared grotesquely ludicrous during his prosperity. 1818Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 26 Grotesquely-constructed sentences. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. ii, A man of about the middle age, very grotesquely attired. |