Grotesque in a sentence as a noun

But saying that changing the law would "harm business" is grotesque.

The Soviet system has long been dogged by a method of pricing that produced grotesque misallocations of effort".

We have a largely docile population in the face of grotesque abuses by governments of all political stripe.

Grotesque in a sentence as an adjective

How you got that from the essay, I don't know, if you see that quote in context he is not saying that at all, he is saying that the low level stuff is neccessary to allow the high level stuff to get built:You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque language that exposes raw memory addresses?

Yes, others may have made some unfair statements that distorted the facts but the company's problem is that such statements, though perhaps unfair in a narrow sense, perfectly capture the sense that most people have that this grotesque thing should not be allowed to stand and that no tears of sympathy need be wasted on those who brought it into existence, whatever their motives.

Grotesque definitions

noun

art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

adjective

distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"

See also: monstrous

adjective

ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"

See also: antic fantastic fantastical