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grotesquerie

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Grotesquery \Gro*tesqu"er*y\, n. [Written also {grotesquerie}.]
   [From {Grotesque}.]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

grotesquerie
     n : ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: {grotesqueness},
          {grotesquery}]
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