grotesquery

Gro*tesqu"er*y, n. [Written also grotesquerie.] [From Grotesque.] Defn: Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates. Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing.

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