'grotesquery' definitions:
Definition of 'grotesquery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: grotesqueness, grotesquery, grotesquerie]
Definition of 'grotesquery'
From: GCIDE
- grotesquery \gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also grotesquerie.] [From Grotesque.] Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." --K. L. Bates.
- Syn: grotesqueness. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]
- Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. --George Gissing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]