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[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: Old Italian (pittura) grottesca 'cave painting', from grotta; GROTTO]
unpleasant, shocking, and offensive
::It's grotesque to portray peace campaigners as unpatriotic.
::By modern standards, the treatment of prisoners was grotesque.
extremely ugly in a strange or unnatural way
::a grotesque figure with a huge head
-- grotesquely adv