\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.