Tesque

The second guard's pale, blue-tinged face split into a gro - tesque grin at Flint's predicament. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

She was innately distrustful of magic, and Pitrick was the most powerful savant, or mage, among the Theiwar: gro - tesque, malicious, and deceitful. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

Pitrick dropped his fist, a thin smile creasing his gro - tesque face. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

Even when the sun was shining Matt's house looked gro tesque, he thought, as he parked his car and walked up to the door. ❋ Craven, Sara (2001)

From a ledge where the tumbled stone lay gro - tesque in the shadows of the sheers above, he had seen them lose his scent. ❋ Parkinson, Dan (1990)

Dark blood spurted, then dripped downward, veiling the thing's gro - tesque mouth. ❋ Parkinson, Dan (1990)

A chirping sound broke the silence of the cave and he saw the smux, throwing a gro - tesque shadow across the beam of moonlight as he came toward him, eyestalks erect. ❋ Norton, Andre (1986)

But this time the crew were prepared and their searchlights stabbed the gloom, picking out the gro - tesque figures of the sea-people. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (1984)

Sheelagh scrambled away from the beast and was clawing at the drapes to pull herself upright,. the gro tesque eyestalks of the startled beast brushing her back, when Carl banged into the apartment. ❋ Attanasio, A. A. (1984)

At the crack of midnight the ground shuddered and the gro - tesque head of the troll emerged into the wan moonlight, casting two shadows. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1982)

The family in Jonson's Volpone takes the gro - tesque form of Volpone's household in which the ❋ ALVIN B. KERNAN (1968)

Traditional human relationships and the forms in which they are expressed become perverse and gro - tesque. ❋ ALVIN B. KERNAN (1968)