grotesquery n. (Written also grotesquerie) Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top."
Synonyms:grotesqueness."Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter."
... three men, with one of the three covering him with a sawed-off Winchester. From that to the unhorsing and the binding had been merely a rough-and-tumble half-minute, inasmuch as he was unarmed and the surprise had been complete; but the grotesquery remained. ... — The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
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