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grotesques

noun

plural of grotesque

as in monsters

a strange or horrible and often frightening creature a gallery of grotesques from some horror movie

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Recent Examples of grotesques The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle. — Adam Fox, CBS News, 14 May 2026 The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 Indeed, compared with the realistically creased faces and hangdog stares of the Cubs, the Boston fans behind them are closer to grotesques, an inhuman crush of caricatures. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026 As the agent rambles, the cameras onstage freeze Tullock’s face at unflattering moments, and the screens behind her display a series of grotesques. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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The anti-catalog exposed, after the fact of the Bicentennial, the grotesqueries of corporate beneficence and private boosters that had supplemented the government’s project.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Neill Blomkamp has yet to top District 9, but this one comes closest to matching his debut’s wry social commentary and borderline-comedic grotesqueries.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of grotesqueries

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In Whalefall, Abrams screams and thrashes with the same vulnerability, and a few more inner demons.

— Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
No ghosts, ghouls, or demons here, just the evil things that greed makes people do, at least until the little guy starts fighting back.

— Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

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