GROTESQUELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grotesquely mean? 

• GROTESQUELY (adverb)
  The adverb GROTESQUELY has 1 sense:

1. in a grotesque manner

  Familiarity information: GROTESQUELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROTESQUELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a grotesque manner

Synonyms:

grotesquely; monstrously

Context example:

behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies

Pertainym:

grotesque (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)

 Context examples 

I sometimes thought that he hated even himself, so grotesquely had life dealt with him, and so monstrously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But what shocked me more than any signs of physical weakness was that his face was grotesquely criss-crossed with sticking-plaster, and that one large pad of it was fastened over his mouth.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed, with a drawn, thin face, and a nose which was grotesquely curved and long.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As to his features, they were scarcely human in their disfigurement, for the deep wrinkles and pouchings of extreme age had been added to a face which had always been grotesquely ugly, and had been crushed and smashed in addition by many a blow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon the white woodwork.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Is there not one alternative,” I suggested, grotesquely improbable, no doubt, but still just conceivable?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)