grotesqueadjective
uk/ɡrəʊˈtesk/us/ɡroʊˈtesk/strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way:
By now she'd had so much cosmetic surgery that she looked quite grotesque.
Gothic churches are full of devils and grotesque figures.
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- corrosive
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hate
- hateful
- noxious
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- shockingly
- stinking
- wretched
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grotesquely
adverb uk/ɡrəʊˈtesk.li/us/ɡroʊˈtesk.li/
a grotesquely fat man
My views were grotesquely (= extremely) misrepresented.
grotesquenoun [ C ]
uk/ɡrəʊˈtesk/us/ɡroʊˈtesk/a painting or other artistic work with an image of a person that is ugly or unpleasant as its subject:
Spencer's grotesques are his best works.
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- alien
- anomaly
- Dalek
- deviant
- fairy
- fish
- Frankenstein
- monster
- mutant
- oddball
- oddity
- perv
- quirk
- screwball
- sicko
- spaceman
- twilight
- twilight zone idiom
- wacko
- weirdo
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