单词	grotesquerie
释义	grotesquerie /ɡrəʊˈtɛskəri / noun (plural grotesqueries) [mass noun] 1Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively: current tastes for horror and grotesquerie... The title suggests Lynchian grotesquerie, but the horrors in this Calcutta-set drama are far more straightforward: hunger, poverty, and desperation. ‘There are more than a couple of moments in this film that get his sense of grotesque tragedy and tragic grotesquerie just right,’ it said. But over time, the horror genre has gone largely from realism and warning to grotesquerie and farce. 1.1 [count noun] A grotesque thing or action: the grotesqueries of the island’s landscape... The artist's early scratch-board, pen-and-ink, pastel, and acrylic grotesqueries vie for wall space with his more recent oils, the newest of which stand frame to frame on the floor around the area's perimeter. It is impossible, however, not to be amused, disgusted, and even awed by the book's ingenious observations, its satiric bite, its rich and vivid catalogue of human grotesqueries. It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead. Origin Late 17th century: French (see grotesque).
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