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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grotesquery \Gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also {grotesquerie}.] [From {Grotesque}.] Grotesque action speech, or manners; grotesque doings. ``The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top.'' --K. L. Bates. Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. --George Gissing. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: grotesquerie n : ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: {grotesqueness}, {grotesquery}]
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