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Grotesquerie meaning in English

Meaning of Grotesquerie in English

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Grotesquerie

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Noun

1. grotesqueness, grotesquerie, grotesquery

ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion

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Grotesquerie

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nounWord forms: plural groˈtesqueries
1. 
a grotesque thing
2. 
the quality or state of being grotesque

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Grotesquerie

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n. pl. gro·tes·que·ries
1. The state of being grotesque; grotesqueness: "A jumble of stuffed animals were packed in the bed around her ... and their innocent shapes crowded around her head in sweet, shadowed grotesquerie" (Donna Tarrt).
2. Something grotesque: "He put the catfish, the tadpoles, and a few other grotesqueries in his jar filled with swamp water, and then picked up all the other wriggling things and threw them back into the lake" (Rick Bass).

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