kafkaesque
IPA: kˈɑfkʌˈɛsk
Root Word: Kafkaesque
adjective
- Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
- Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
- In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
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Examples of "kafkaesque" in Sentences
- Something like that kafkaesque enough for you Jim?
- This is kafkaesque and people wonder why they can't stand dems.
- Let's talk about ways to eliminate conflict, so this ridiculous kafkaesque environment ends some day.
- Listening to the bank explain how it missed even the simplest safeguards (having a signature card for example) was kafkaesque.
- “France is definitely alone in the world with its kafkaesque administrative machinery, an expensive mechanism for arbitrary punishment,” said La Quadrature du Net.
- The ruling has the art world's appropriators reeling—one blogger called the ruling "kafkaesque"—as the rarefied, anything-goes realm of conceptual art runs up against the hard-nosed realities of intellectual-property rights.
- As well as Beckett, Kafka seems never far - Brick's situation pretty well fits popular understandings of the word kafkaesque (the second time I've (mis) used it this week) - and the echo in the name of Brill's granddaughter, Katya, is hardly accidental.
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