Grotesque – Crossword Clue

1. Definition: 1. just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"

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1. Definition: 1. deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "he threw a wild pitch"

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1. Definition: 1. move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck"

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1. Definition: 1. people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

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1. Definition: 1. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

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1. Definition: 1. objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)

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1. Definition: 1. a room used for reading and writing and studying; "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study"

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1. Definition: 1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

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1. Definition: 1. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

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1. Definition: 1. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

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1. Definition: 1. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

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1. Definition: 1. Not genuine

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1. Definition: 1. a sculpture representing a human or animal

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1. Definition: 1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"

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1. Definition: 1. intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"

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1. Definition: 1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

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1. Definition: 1. affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient"

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1. Definition: 1. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

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1. Definition: 1. resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

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1. Definition: 1. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

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1. Definition: 1. not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills"

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1. Definition: 1. not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"

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1. Definition: 1. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

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1. Definition: 1. liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"

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1. Definition: 1. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

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1. Definition: 1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

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1. Definition: 1. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"

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1. Definition: 1. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

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1. Definition: 1. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

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1. Definition: 1. having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"

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1. Definition: 1. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

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1. Definition: 1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"

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1. Definition: 1. without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous mineral"; "amorphous structure"

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1. Definition: 1. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

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1. Definition: 1. not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

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1. Definition: 1. relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater"

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1. Definition: 1. being present everywhere at once

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1. Definition: 1. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

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1. Definition: 1. inspiring scornful pity;

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1. Definition: 1. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"

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1. Definition: 1. incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

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