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What does Kafkaesque mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Kafkaesque? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
  2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
  3. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
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The member for Peterborough resorted to humour to present some Kafkaesque situations that are unlikely to occur in reality.
In her testimony, she described her brother's four-year-long ordeal as Kafkaesque.
To an outsider trying to decipher the roots of such conflicts, the situation is, well, Kafkaesque.
There, amid a Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal, his medical skills became indispensable to the prison authorities.
The most grotesque distortions gain currency: Brussels is supposedly home to an immense, Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures.

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