grotesque

1. (typography) A sans serif typeface.countableuncountable

1. (transitive) To make grotesque.Examples: "Why, when I saw that bestiality— / So beyond all brute-beast imagining, / That when, to point the moral at the close, / Poor Salabaccho, just to show how fair / Was ‘Reconciliation,’ stripped her charms, / That exhibition simply bade us breathe, / Seemed something healthy and commendable / After obscenity grotesqued so much / It slunk away revolted at itself."; "This is to grotesque Dante, not to translate him."; "At this point, species is seen antagonistically by the subject as something intent on restricting its freedom and grotesqueing its vitality."transitive