How to Use grotesquerie in a Sentence

grotesquerie

noun
  • The seams between bolsters can trap all kinds of tiny grotesqueries.
    — Blake Z. Rong, Esquire, 11 May 2017
  • The grotesquerie is edged with triumph and therefore not remote from truth.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
  • The show both mirrors and skewers the grotesqueries of online life.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • The abundance of these grotesqueries was almost stranger than their existence.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Bang does better with the grotesquerie of hellfire, where lowballing the tone can have a sharp, often comic edge.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Rarely has an extended metaphor turned into such a final-boss-battle grotesquerie.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Platter can hardly go more than a few pages without noting one grotesquerie or another.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This is less a parody of Judd than a reckoning with flesh and other grotesqueries.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The grotesquerie of the images is meant to interrupt what pleasure the scene might otherwise prompt.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • Both the prosecution and the defense aimed to find a thread of logic in an inexplicable grotesquerie.
    — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
  • And if even the grotesqueries of Jimmy Fallon’s unconscious cannot slate your thirst for terror, congrats!
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The grotesquerie Houellebecq is famous for pervades Serotonin.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
  • This movie is a gleeful carnival of nauseating grotesqueries.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a provision in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that’s supposed to deal with such grotesqueries.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
  • Strauss’s roguish grotesqueries were beautifully played, with warm coziness to the thicket of intertwining lines in the winds.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In Loro, the effort to plumb the void at the center of all the grotesqueries is given a sharper, more historically specific edge.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The image seems almost forced apart by the grotesqueries of stereotype, technology collapsing under the weight of history.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Lankov argues that this is a convoluted distortion of one of the real-life grotesqueries of North Korean life.
    — Will Sommer, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
  • The result is a panorama of atomic grotesquerie that is at once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Dreamy forests and bright angels curdle and mutate into digital grotesquerie, a Spam Folder of faceless creatures and shock shlock.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2025
  • At first glance, armed right-wing militants dressed in floral shirts may seem like another baffling grotesquerie in the parade of calamities that is 2020.
    — Dale Beran, The Atlantic, 4 July 2020
  • As insults followed injuries, and gaffes piled onto grotesqueries, heated debate became hateful diatribe.
    — Ben Schott, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2016
  • Beran understands the grotesqueries of 4chan as a kind of modern monument to disconsolate male heartbreak.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 31 July 2019
  • The third season kitchen-sinked with luscious grotesquerie, clashing giallo horror into a Euro-trippy showdown.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • As in Pillion and elsewhere, Melling imbues a premise’s potential grotesqueries with real and specific feelings.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Able to spin memories into literary gold, Hull’s warmth and sadness call to mind the grotesqueries of Flannery O’Connor.
    — Jessica Ferri, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • To avoid sappiness, Donnelly tends to complicate his allusions with willful grotesquerie.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The Big Forehead and Eye Distance filters morph familiar faces into comic grotesqueries, to the delight of all.
    — Charlotte Shane, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • If America is lucky—and America has been a lucky country—out of the grotesqueries of this Trumpian era a rectification will gather force.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018

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