How To Use Grotesquely In A Sentence
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He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
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It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
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Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth.
Try Anything Twice
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Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer.
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
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Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed.
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My brother was ‘a naughty boy’ and dabbled with drugs, nothing grotesquely bad, just uppers and downers, but we think one day he got carried away and accidentally took too many of one sort or the other.
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In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
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Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
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Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
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It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
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He was thirty-four, but looked much older, had a grotesquely humped back, a grey beard and droopy moustache.
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Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
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Humans making voyages into deep space are likely to become grotesquely deformed, the festival was told.
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The idea of the bully fits neatly with one of the most grotesquely enduring of all anti-American beliefs: that Americans are all dumb Yanks.
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To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency.
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He's the $600 million dollar pointman, the "car czar" for the Obama Adminstraion's assault on American auto workers, which is the greenlight for the attack on the jobs and living standards of every working class American in order that the US might "recover" on their backs through austerity for the poor and grotesquely increased profits for the already wealthy.
The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers
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Pay was grotesquely unequal.
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His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
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I was shocked at what I saw, " he said. "The medial side of my leg was grotesquely streaked in purple-black from the bottom of my calf to my ankle, including the top of my foot.
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His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked.
Of Gods And Monsters
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People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid.
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His sword winked out, and then his armor as he gasped and clutched at his throat in a way that reminded the dwarf grotesquely of his nephew Joffrey's death.
Trial of Seven
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team.
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behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies
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His face was grotesquely distorted, all swollen and pouched, his skin hanging in great folds of warty flesh round his neck.
A TIME OF WAR
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We have so massively exceeded any kind of political entity the Founding Fathers could have possibly imagined or anticiapted (in size, in numbers, in geographical distribution, in ineducable ideological rigidity; in grotesquely uneven distributions of power, in potentials for abusing that power, in possibilities for indoctrination and propaganda; the list goes on) that the mechanisms for making fundamental changes to the basic legal structures of our union are incapable of functioning any longer.
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Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling.
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Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles.
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Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift).
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Their bodies appear broken and almost grotesquely malformed.
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Yet the damage done by his grotesquely lopsided report vastly outweighs the gravity of the offence.
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He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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Now it turns out to be grotesquely biased in favour of single mums.
The Sun
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He called it the most grotesquely tragic experience that he's ever had.
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No fan of Marx, Collier writes that the message was "grotesquely" wrong and that "Trade policy is the area of economics least well understood by the NGO world.
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In Germany in the good old days certain kinds of female criminals were "impaled," a punishment too grotesquely horrible for description, but likely enough considered by the simple German of the period conspicuously merciful.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
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The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms.
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Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.
Gone for Good
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I knew I had been perfectly ridiculous, over - acting grotesquely.
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The dark, windowless cells were littered with clothes and mattresses and had evidently been grotesquely overcrowded.
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To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency.
Times, Sunday Times
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STENGEL: Well, actually, as you know, Anderson, in the Middle East, I mean, they look at Bush's depiction of Islam and the Middle East as being so broad and kind of grotesquely large and not being subtle enough and not looking at the complexities.
CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2006
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Britain has a grotesquely unfair education system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two fingers bent grotesquely, jointless as worm flesh, for as yet neither bone nor muscle supported the structure underneath.
Shadowfane
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Now it turns out to be grotesquely biased in favour of single mums.
The Sun
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It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation.
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The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate.
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One of the sport's most celebrated figures was a small right-winger with grotesquely shaped legs and an extraordinary style of play.
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And it must be confessed, that there is some amusement to be found in abusing someone as grotesquely obtuse as yourself.
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It would be grotesquely unfair to freeze the housing market.
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There are some signs of a reckoning in sports where teams have grown accustomed to living in a manner that some would call grotesquely and dangerously large.
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First, mid-range places tend to have grotesquely over-inflated prices.
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He called it the most grotesquely tragic experience that he's ever had.
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Not to do it now would be grotesquely irresponsible.
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Hunger hurt her, and hurt her meagre breasts that should have been full for the seven feeble and mewing little ones, replicas of her save that their eyes were not yet open and that they were grotesquely unsteady on their soft, young legs.
CHAPTER XX
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At 11 months in Paris, I may even go so far as to use the word grotesquely oversized.
Zuni's Orange-Currant Scones
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Sept. 9 Bloomberg -- Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam argued against the government's request for what he called a "grotesquely severe" punishment for his insider- trading convictions.
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She could see the round, spherical canvasses stretched across the metal, almost grotesquely.
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Grotesquely oversized houses are squeezed into normal-sized lots.
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Their scrawny legs and toeless feet could barely walk; their arms and torso were grotesquely skeletal with almost no muscle at all.
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I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress.
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It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation.
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Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles.
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Humans making voyages into deep space are likely to become grotesquely deformed, the festival was told.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change.
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This particular mistaken belief has provided the underpinning for the GOP’s grotesquely dishonest domestic policy appeals for decades – from Reagan’s promises to curtail “waste, fraud and abuse” to McCain babbling about bear DNA studies.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending
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Your choices in women generally strike me as fat and sometimes kind of grotesquely overendowed … I kinda like a woman who could actually run if she wanted to.
Undefined
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He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
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Their grotesquely enlarged features give them a monstrous quality.
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The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
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In this grotesquely acquisitive society, all cultural markers are subject to violent revision as the inhabitants seek to fulfil their various appetites.
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And how are we to know whether said ladies intend on using our juvenile fascination with grotesquely over-sized bazooms to blow a hole in the side of the red-eye from LAX to JFK?
Explosive Breast Implants | Manolith
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The whole effect grotesquely resembled a giant mushroom or toadstool.
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If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees, -- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself
Angst Envy
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Ben Jonson's "Catiline," it was but "a cast at dice in Fortune's hand" that it might have been a great defeat, Clive was astonishingly, grotesquely out-numbered.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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Britain has a grotesquely unfair education system.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the embodiment of a restaurateur's nightmare, some one who behaves grotesquely yet spends an awful lot of money.
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A drunk businesswoman who killed a young couple while speeding 'grotesquely' at 113mph in a
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Ministers must bring an end to this harrowing, grotesquely unjust process.
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The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
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Evelyn was corpulent, thick-set, grotesquely charismatic; Laila was flame-haired, wide-eyed, honey-voiced.
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Over the footpace of the altar hangs a unique crucifix on which the carved oak corpus leans forward in a spasm of death agony, with its arms grotesquely twisted behind.
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They said the federal guideline range overstated the seriousness of Rajaratnam's crimes, and called the term sought by the U.S. "grotesquely severe.
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Using their grotesquely overdeveloped herd instinct and ability to believe any scrofulous thing about the opposition, the Right have almost literally been able to project their creepy reality onto the U.S. for many years.
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Now it turns out to be grotesquely biased in favour of single mums.
The Sun
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The sailors affected were so grotesquely swollen that they were essentially unrecognizable.
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Grotesquely camp, the film remains one of the most acidic indictments of Tinsel Town since Gloria Swanson got ready for her close-up.
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Stupid acronyms contribute to stupid governance, and this particular example is flagrantly ugly, charmlessly kludgy, insipidly, nonsensically, grotesquely stupid.
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Who in their right mind would turn down the job of their dreams even though deep down they know themselves to be grotesquely underqualified for said job?
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Right after Palin was nominated, I called her grotesquely underqualified to be President, and I was right.
MUNICH - AND A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING
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So clearly, even under the grotesquely inadequate laws of 2003, the police do not seem to have been significantly impeded in their ability to spot-check ID and nick people.
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Joshua trees are monicots, grotesquely oversized lilies, with contorted limbs and trunks armored with spikes, which are used skillfully by the loggerhead shrike to impale its prey.
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He called it the most grotesquely tragic experience that he's ever had.
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The man who uses my Roget to find a synonym let us say for thanking for a ` meal 'will come up with such grotesquely inappropriate variants as: manducation, scoff, phytophagy, refection, and spread.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
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Killings were sometimes grotesquely accomplished, with excessive butchery.
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Britain has a grotesquely unfair education system.
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None of which changes the fact that it's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
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One of my cats now has a grotesquely swollen stomach.
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Deus Ex Machina" is also about how market-driven pop culture becomes grotesquely consecrated, but here the message is incisively delivered in a compact story.
First the Settlers, Then the Settled
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Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed.
The Best Endings in Science Fiction
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All the rugs and tablecloths the stores of the town contained were requisitioned for this purpose; green baize and crimson baize, repp curtains and plush, anything, everything remotely suitable, was claimed and cut up to serve as quilts and counterpanes, with the result that the beds looked picturesquely, if not grotesquely, gay.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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Long after, it would come back to me, the oddity of that spectacle in the hollow -- a man in a red fealdag, with his hide-covered buckler grotesquely flailing the grass, he, in the Gaelic custom, making a great moan about his end, and a pair of bickering rooks cawing away heartily as if it was no more than a sheep in the throes of braxy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
