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单词 grotesquely
释义

grotesquely

/ɡrə(ʊ)ˈtɛskli /
adverb
1In a comically or repulsively ugly or distorted manner: both men have fingers that are twisted grotesquely [as submodifier]: his body was grotesquely swollen...
  • Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
  • I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress.
  • Their bodies appear broken and almost grotesquely malformed.
1.1In an incongruous or shockingly inappropriate manner: a cop who grotesquely abused his power [as submodifier]: a grotesquely unfair tax system...
  • Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling.
  • He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
  • It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
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