Grotesque has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar. | |
| 2. | When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly. | |
| 3. | I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque. | |
| 4. | From this point on, the story becomes so twisted and grotesque that I can't stop reading it anymore. | |
| 5. | It is grotesque: every private company, even small private companies, think European nowadays, but not so the governments of their states. | |
| 6. | If the agreement were enforced, it would create a situation verging on the grotesque. | |
| 7. | Quite apart from the concerns surrounding this injustice itself, it seems grotesque that this situation has been brought about by a committee whose very purpose of existence is the defence of women's rights and equal opportunities. | |
| 8. | As the grotesque parade passed by, everyone came out of their homes, hypnotized. | |
| 9. | What is happening at the present time in the dispute over place-name signs in Carinthia is grotesque. | |
| 10. | In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again. |