Adjective modifier

• comic: Tommy Rag is a fine addition to Spall's gallery of comic grotesques.

• medieval: Yet they have blind arches as decoration at their heads and these are accompanied by what appear to be original medieval grotesques.

Modifies a noun

• parody: In recent years the finances of football have been a grotesque parody of the Italian financial system.

• distortion: This is a grotesque distortion of the truth which most people have now grasped.

• mask: Together, they become a grotesque mask of racial parody.

• spectacle: And there is the grotesque spectacle of African children aping their elders " playing at soldiers " .

• monster: Most represent grotesque monsters, deformed men or fabulous animals.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The little fish, now with a rather grotesque face, starts swimming on its side, with eyes uppermost.

• particularly: If they see a particularly grotesque corpse they might puke up or lose it altogether and run around hysterically, shooting everyone in sight.

• so: Instead of concrete feed towers and 100 or so grotesque concrete pens, I now see slender young cherry trees and limes.

• even: Giant Plants These isolated island habitats have many plants that have evolved to large or even grotesque forms.

• wonderfully: General Sarov and his wonderfully grotesque henchman, Conrad, are the baddies in this globetrotting adventure packed with excitement.

• quite: The idea that to be at home looking after children is some kind of oppression is quite grotesque.

Infinitive complement

• think: This agenda has nothing to do with protecting the vulnerable or encouraging tolerance and it is grotesque to think it does.

Used with adjective complement

• look: On a man with a height of less than 8 feet I think this would look rather grotesque.

• become: As the pace of life becomes more frantic the value of introspection becomes diminished except in art where it is encouraged to become grotesque.

• seem: The painting made Edward's face seem grotesque, but there was a secret to the painting.

Preposition: in

• art: In this poem we have a contrast such as furnished a hint of the true grotesque in art.

• extreme: He said the situation was " grotesque in the extreme " .