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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

grotesquery

· gro·tesqu·er·y · IPA
01 n. Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
  1. 1.
    Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
    “Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.” — George Gissing.