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How to use grotesquely in a sentence

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Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling.
In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
The sailors affected were so grotesquely swollen that they were essentially unrecognizable.
I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress.
Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate.
People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid.
The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision.
But the dividing line between their beliefs and the grotesquely distorted ideals of National Socialism was a very fine one.
They become grotesquely empowered by calmly taking pleasure in their rebellion.
Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
Messer portrays her as a dough-faced sad sack who slumps glumly in front of a couple of her trademark paintings of grotesquely buxom women.
It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation.
Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles.
One of the sport's most celebrated figures was a small right-winger with grotesquely shaped legs and an extraordinary style of play.
It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change.
Once the thin blue line defending a society's fundamental values, the police have now grotesquely turned into a weapon against them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are grotesquely gnarled and twisted, taking most unthought-of shapes and positions.
He is as grotesquely romantic, as mephistophelian a figure in the illustration as in the printed page.
Behind a rapidly spinning limousine pedalled a grotesquely humped bicyclist, using the car as a pacemaker.
He could have pummeled the irreverent knot of gamins who mimicked it grotesquely.
Some, like Evan, were grotesquely barrel-chested, with or without the hump.
The dancers were grotesquely got up, and are amusingly described by Mr Baker.
The centre figure in the pictographic painting is a wolf grotesquely drawn.
It struck her grotesquely that perhaps Mrs. Herrick's instinct was right, after all.
To the left of Michael, in Number Seventeen, were five grotesquely clipped French poodles.
The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position.
In fact, every one had his own grotesquely painful peculiarity.
For a secretary she is too abysmally ignorant, too grotesquely incapable.
He nodded grotesquely over his raised legs, like two broomsticks in the pyjamas, with enormous bare feet at the end.
They flew helter-skelter out of his grips, landing in all manner of attitudes, grotesquely and harmlessly, in the soft snow.
The walls of another room were covered with grotesquely and elaborately figured hand-wrought tapestry.
When they find me in that little lodging so grotesquely muffled in petticoat and coif, perchance they will burst with laughter.
He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed, with a drawn, thin face, and a nose which was grotesquely curved and long.
Then he thought, grotesquely enough, that they might be cherubs.
He was still grotesquely grasping a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley.
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