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ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion

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  1. n. ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
  2. 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.
  3. Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "Thesustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.
  4. n. ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion