Meaning of Grotesque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
   countable, uncountable
2. Anything grotesque.
   countable, uncountable
3. A sans serif typeface.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Obese and largely unintelligible, Don Vito represents a working-class white male grotesque, the picture of excess.”

“He’s also the new character from Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind Ali G, Borat and Brüno: that unholy trinity of comic grotesques that told us a lot more about ourselves than we’d like to admit.”

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