\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.