the motions behind the word Grotesque

[cacian]

I often hear the word grotesque made with reference to antique/art or memorablia and so maye describes something exagerated or not so pleasant to the naked eye.
Whatever this french word may meanw when used in reference with English , what would you say the word evoke in you?

[Alexander III]

I think deformed, ugly, tormented like those gothic sculptures of devils in torment and disfigurement all along the flank(not facing the Seine) of Notre Dame

[Charles Darnay]

grotesque doesn't quite reach horrific, but is a "fear" brought on by the strangeness of something.

[cafolini]

Grotesque, for example, is when in any of the marketing internet forums doing research today, there are different personalities for the same post, and when they change and another one takes over the post, they look so inconsistently different. It is grotesque. That's one example.
Another one is an editor that changes the meanings of a writer instead of changing only the way they are expressed to improve communication. There are lots of these jackasses all over the grotesque manifestations.
There are all kinds of grotesque situations.