Definition of grotesquely in English:
grotesquely
adverb ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛskliɡroʊˈtɛskli
1In a comically or repulsively ugly or distorted manner.
both men have fingers that are twisted grotesquely
as submodifier his body was grotesquely swollen
Example sentencesExamples
- In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
- One of my cats now has a grotesquely swollen stomach.
- The sailors affected were so grotesquely swollen that they were essentially unrecognizable.
- Their bodies appear broken and almost grotesquely malformed.
- I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress.
- Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
- Their grotesquely enlarged features give them a monstrous quality.
- The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
- His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
- He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
- 1.1 In an incongruous or shockingly inappropriate manner.
a cop who grotesquely abused his power
as submodifier a grotesquely unfair tax system
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
- He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
- Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling.
- The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate.
- It would be grotesquely unfair to freeze the housing market.
- People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid.
- Ministers must bring an end to this harrowing, grotesquely unjust process.
- Not to do it now would be grotesquely irresponsible.
- The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
- Grotesquely oversized houses are squeezed into normal-sized lots.
Definition of grotesquely in US English:
grotesquely
adverbɡrōˈtesklēɡroʊˈtɛskli
1In a comically or repulsively ugly or distorted manner.
both men have fingers that are twisted grotesquely
as submodifier his body was grotesquely swollen
Example sentencesExamples
- Their bodies appear broken and almost grotesquely malformed.
- His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
- He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
- In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
- I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress.
- Their grotesquely enlarged features give them a monstrous quality.
- The sailors affected were so grotesquely swollen that they were essentially unrecognizable.
- One of my cats now has a grotesquely swollen stomach.
- Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
- The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
- 1.1 In an incongruous or shockingly inappropriate manner.
a cop who grotesquely abused his power
as submodifier a grotesquely unfair tax system
Example sentencesExamples
- Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling.
- It would be grotesquely unfair to freeze the housing market.
- He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
- Not to do it now would be grotesquely irresponsible.
- It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
- The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate.
- The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
- Ministers must bring an end to this harrowing, grotesquely unjust process.
- People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid.
- Grotesquely oversized houses are squeezed into normal-sized lots.