(n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
(n.) Artificial grotto-work.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was some fertile ground in which that grotesque lie could be sown.
(2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(3) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(4) They look like grotesque open-air swimming pools - and they contain some of the UK's biggest problems regarding nuclear waste.
(5) I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque.
(6) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.
(7) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
(8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(9) A combination of dysfunctional family and invasive fame ate away at the essentially private singer, whose initially minor eccentricities escalated into grotesque changes to his appearance and lifestyle.
(10) The church cannot face in two directions like a grotesque two-headed monster: one face for public, the other for private.
(11) O'Brien has since become notorious among equal rights campaigners for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage and gay adoptions , calling homosexuality a "grotesque subversion" and "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of those involved".
(12) He will still be lauded by those who enjoy this grotesque, sadistic sport, whatever his views on gay people or women.
(13) The model is then subjected to the criticism that it is grotesque to ignore questions relating to the value of, for example, a productive mother over against an aged recluse, and to treat them as having equal rights to access.
(14) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
(15) His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat.
(16) To put it plainly, PFI charges include too high a rate of interest and grotesquely high returns on equity.
(17) But he made grotesque monetary demands for the nonsense of Superman.
(18) His conclusion, outlined in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard , is that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that was flooding Denver and the surrounding area at the time of Matthew’s death.
(19) It's that to portray Israel as some kind of victim with every right to "defend itself" from attack from "outside its borders" is a grotesque inversion of reality.
(20) It also contains a grotesquely racist portrayal of an Asian neighbour by Mickey Rooney.
Ugly
Definition:
(superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
(superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
(superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
(n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
(v. t.) To make ugly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
(2) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(3) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
(4) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
(5) This would probably end in an ugly fight on the floor of the convention where delegates (almost of whom are selected in a process separate from the actual primary ) are free to vote on the rules however they want.
(6) To suggest that people who are concerned about the use of a power of this sort against journalists are condoning terrorism, which seems to be the implication of that remark, is an extremely ugly and unhelpful sentiment.
(7) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(8) With panic-inducing stories of deaths, rising infection rates and government failure to advertise the annual vaccination campaign, flu has once again reared its ugly head in our newspapers and across TV screens.
(9) He cites the shockingly ugly examples of "predict" and "extraneous".
(10) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
(11) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Steve Huffman, a Reddit founder and former CEO, will return to the top job.
(12) To be talking of relocating people off their traditional country does indeed take us back 50 years in a very ugly way.” Barnett has said there is no other option but closure of between 100 and 150 communities which it has described as “unviable”, and cited “high rates of suicide, poor education, poor health [and] no jobs”.
(13) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
(14) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(15) We lived on the 10th floor of one of Moscow's post-communist-era apartment blocks, an ugly, orange-brick tower in the Moscow suburb of Voikovskaya.
(16) Sixty-one headteachers wrote to the papers in support a couple of days later, but they were swept away by a campaign notable for the ugliness it permitted in some of its readers.
(17) After a £559m loss in the first half, he told the Guardian last week that the annual numbers would be "ugly" .
(18) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(19) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(20) In many ways, I wasn't shocked with the physical threats and ugly language.