Example sentences for: grotesquely

How can you use “grotesquely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Aramony, jailed for fraud and embezzlement after years of stealing from the charity, had a "top hat " pension plan, a grotesquely lavish package of benefits far richer than those offered to ordinary workers.

  • One imagines that discriminating people in the 16 th century mourned the death of high fashion in much the same way, when slashed sleeves, grotesquely imitating the rags of mercenary soldiers, came into style.

  • A man whose defective moral sense included a grotesquely exaggerated loyalty to a limited number of people in his own family and in the slums.

  • Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.

  • --Some say the president's wire-tapping measures are grotesquely intrusive, but apparently the Republicans want to deploy some sort of shrinking machine that can inject a tiny congresswoman right into your digestive system.


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