"esperpento" meaning in Spanish

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        "the fingerling of the red gurnard"
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          "ref": "1884, Benito Pérez Galdós, La de Bringas:",
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          "spectacle",
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          "text": "–Pues quédese en lo que quieras. Pues digo que tú misma, si yo estuviese de humor y te… No, no te ruborices… ¡Si pensarás que eres un esperpento!… No; arreglándote un poquito, resultarías muy aceptable. Tienes unos ojos que ya los quisieran más de cuatro.",
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        "monstrosity (horrendously deformed, misshapen or hideous individual)"
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          "text": "Durante años se ha estudiado el esperpento valleinclaniano como género —o «estilo» aplicable a varios géneros—conocido por su peculiar manera de representar la realidad histórica española.",
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    },
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