Words similar to grotesque
Example sentences for: grotesque
How can you use “grotesque” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Via del Babuino , running north from Piazza di Spagna, is named after an ancient fountain with a statue of Silenus, the grotesque drunken follower of Bacchus, which seemed to resemble a baboon.
Tudjman, who built his career on such cold, grotesque, and highly effective sleaziness, would surely appreciate the compliment.
And those wartime Warner Bros. cartoons where Bugs Bunny battles grotesque caricatures of the Japanese--they don't quite hold up.
In "Partial Truths in the Partial-Birth-Abortion Debate," Atul Gawande attempts to reduce our natural, profound revulsion at the thought of the procedures used in abortion to an aesthetic response: All abortions are "grotesque," or "gross."
It is a grotesque relic of a defused threat, and we can feel good knowing that we have triumphed over its implications.
Loading...