Words similar to grotesque

Example sentences for: grotesque

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The catalog, filled with photographs of overly cute little girls and their grotesque simulacra--identically dressed!
It is a grotesque relic of a defused threat, and we can feel good knowing that we have triumphed over its implications.
Remember the grotesque defense-spending boondoggles of the '50s and '60s meant to bridge the "missile gap" with the Soviets and the "swimming pool and redwood deck gap" at the summer houses of General Dynamics executives?
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as "a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical."