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grotesqueness

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

奇形怪状,怪异,怪诞,怪诞不经

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Definitions

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

  • He was at least sixty-five years of age, bent and stoop-shouldered, with features that were homely to the point of grotesqueness.

  • Colossal it certainly is, as Howells and Stedman agreed: colossal in its grotesqueness as in its sublimity.

  • With a cry at the grotesqueness of the thing, he flung it from him, watching it go skipping over the polished floor.

  • Indifferent to his grotesqueness, he took it off and put it on the ground beside him, standing ready to command attention.

  • For the grotesqueness and inconvenience of a wound are sometimes more swiftly felt than its pain.