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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grotesque /grə(ʊ)ˈtɛsk/

▶adjective

1 comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

2 shockingly incongruous or inappropriate.

▶noun

1 a grotesque figure or image.

2 a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.

3 Printing a family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces.

– derivatives
grotesquely adverb,
grotesqueness noun.

– origin C16 (as n.): from Fr. crotesque, from Ital. grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’.

'grotesque' also found in these Oxford entries:

antic - baboon - caricature - fright - gargoyle - grotesquerie - grotty - gurn - marmoset - moloch - punch - travesty

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