Grotesque: alternatives and connections

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

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Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

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Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the endi…

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Quality of being grotesque.

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Quality of being grotesque.

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Old; antique.

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Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

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Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

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Marvelous; strange.

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