- 1strange in a way that is unpleasant or offensive a grotesque distortion of the truth The story was too grotesque to believe. It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.
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- 2extremely ugly in a strange way that is often frightening or amusing a grotesque figure tribal dancers wearing grotesque masks
adverb He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.See grotesque in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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