Grotesquely
[gro'tɛskli]
Definition
(adv.) in a grotesque manner; 'behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a grotesque manner.
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Examples
- Is there not one alternative, I suggested, grotesquely improbable, no doubt, but still just conceivable? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed, with a drawn, thin face, and a nose which was grotesquely curved and long. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Carved stags' heads, with real antlers, looked down grotesquely from the walls. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was dressed grotesquely, in glittering robes and shawls fit for a woman; she appeared about ten years of age. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not grotesquely fantastic are the forms of cliff and foliage, not violently vivid the colouring of flower and bird. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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