A style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.
The cathedral was adorned with grotesques that depicted mythical creatures and distorted human figures.
A very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image.
The artist's latest sculpture was a grotesque that combined elements of both human and animal forms.