Right after Palin was nominated, I called her grotesquely underqualified to be President, and I was right. From Wordnik.com. [MUNICH - AND A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING] Reference
At 11 months in Paris, I may even go so far as to use the word grotesquely oversized. From Wordnik.com. [July, you made it hard to like you.] Reference
A drunk businesswoman who killed a young couple while speeding 'grotesquely' at 113mph in a. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Hadrianea -- grotesquely pompous in titular magnificence. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He presented arms most grotesquely as the party came near. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
In fact, every one had his own grotesquely painful peculiarity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
And that is a statement so grotesquely untrue that I suspect Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
Duke walked steadily away from the grotesquely elaborate landing field. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
Some, like Evan, were grotesquely barrel-chested, with or without the hump. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
The girl's eyes widened and her mouth flew open, making her face grotesquely gaunt. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
It struck her grotesquely that perhaps Mrs. Herrick's instinct was right, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
The trick is to yoke the unmistakable manner to a grotesquely disproportionate subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
They are grotesquely gnarled and twisted, taking most unthought-of shapes and positions. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
They blow themselves and the economy up while paying themselves grotesquely large salaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Great ATM Robbery] Reference
I turned and twenty yards away a soldier was on the ground, one of his legs grotesquely twisted. From Wordnik.com. [Vietnam Memories] Reference
Some of these expressions, were they not so fearfully blasphemous, would be grotesquely sublime. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
All the complexity of a country has been reduced to something grotesquely simple: capturing one man. From Wordnik.com. [ERROL MORRIS] Reference
She gave a convincing nod of her head and rubbed a hand ruefully across the grotesquely decorated cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
If that stabbed stabber under the table had not misunderstood you so grotesquely -- the gross-witted hog!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The projecting upper stories are supported on great timber balks, often with the ends grotesquely carved. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
Today they illustrate grotesquely misplaced priorities and are a reprehensible dereliction of political duty. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Another Look At Spain] Reference
Not loudly or heartily, but with intense mocking enjoyment, as at something too grotesquely absurd for speech. From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
The blood was oozing out of my gut as I looked on helplessly at my lifeless complexion and grotesquely open mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Back To Earth As A Dog] Reference
Turkeys that look grotesquely large when they are alive are usually big when they're dead and their feathers are gone. From Wordnik.com. [James Frey: Turkeys, Traditions and Families On The Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm] Reference
Her eyes, looking straight into his, filled slowly with tears, and his white face danced grotesquely before her vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Beneath the pomp of his trappings, the fat, overfed body protruded grotesquely, and his movements were slow and clumsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
Its right ear turned forward for Mahon's familiar welcome, the left, struggling to follow, fell away grotesquely in its upper half. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
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