Dictionary entry

Grotesquery

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gro‐tesqu″er‐y (?), n. [Written also grotesquerie.] [From Grotesque.] Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. “The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top.” K. L. Bates.

Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing.