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grotesquely

/groh-tesk/US // groʊˈtɛsk //UK // (ɡrəʊˈtɛsk) //

怪异地,怪诞地,怪诞的,怪异的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
    • : fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any grotesque object, design, person, or thing.

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Examples

  • Such as a scene where a corpse is being disposed of in a grotesque manner while the car radio in the background blasts Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

  • And did you not also, in between shivers, admire how grotesquely pretty the shot was?

  • So, this is clearly freakazoid behavior, and is obviously a grotesquely inappropriate thing for a medical professional to do.

  • In the past, Hamad has suffered some health problems, in part because he has diabetes and used to be grotesquely obese.

  • A small, if nonsensical, price to pay for America to stop being so grotesquely fat.

  • Julia Tymoshenko languishes in a prison hospital, her privacy grotesquely invaded (almost every move she makes is videotaped).

  • Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

  • A horse or a tree or a clump of brush loomed up grotesquely in the vaporous blur.

  • The third was a mournful-eyed Schree, clad in an ornamented smock-like garment, from which his thin limbs thrust grotesquely.

  • He rose, shaking himself together, and his glance fell on the three suspended socks bulging grotesquely.

  • Nowhere perhaps has the great water erosion of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin.