They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
Source: tatoeba (34046)
Grotesque
//ɡɹoʊˈtɛsk//
Synonyms for "grotesque" (155 found)
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kitschknock kneedknock-kneedlaughableludicrousmacabremaggotymalformedmarredmastermasterpiecemasterworkmisbegottenmisproportionedmisshapenmobilemorbidmuseum piecemutilatednonsensical
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notionalnudeoddoffbeatold masterout of shapeoutlandishoutrageousoutrepasticciopastichepeculiarpiecepiece of virtupigeon toedpigeon-toedpoppycockishpreposterouspug nosedpug-nosedqueerrachiticricketyridiculousrococoshapelesssicksimoussnub nosedsnub-nosedsplayfootstabilestatuestill lifestrangestudystumpyswaybackedtalipedicteraticteratogenicteratoidterribletruncatedtwistedubiquitousuglyuncannyunnaturalunshapelyvirtuweirdwhimsicalwildworkwork of art
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32 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَرِيب adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Bulgarian
2 entries- странен adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- уродлив adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 怪模怪樣 /怪模怪样 adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- acayip adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Danish
1 entries- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Dutch
1 entries- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Esperanto
1 entries- groteska adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Finnish
2 entries- groteski adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- irvokas adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
French
1 entries- grotesque adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Galician
1 entries- grotesco adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
German
1 entries- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Hebrew
1 entries- גרוטסקה adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Hindi
4 entries- कुरूप adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- बेडौल adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- विकृत adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- विरूप adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Hungarian
1 entries- groteszk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Italian
1 entries- grottesco adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Japanese
3 entries- グロい adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- グロな adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- グロテスクな adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Norwegian
1 entries- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Polish
1 entries- groteskowy adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Portuguese
1 entries- grotesco adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Romanian
1 entries- grotesc adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Russian
1 entries- гроте́скный adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Spanish
1 entries- grotesco adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Swedish
1 entries- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Turkish
2 entries- acayip adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
- grotesk adj (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Sample sentences
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When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
Source: tatoeba (425813)
I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.
Source: tatoeba (1246489)
From this point on, the story becomes so twisted and grotesque that I can't stop reading it anymore.
Source: tatoeba (1247769)
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