Adjective : monstrous cruelty. ,a monstrous building. From Dictionary.com.
Her cover cake is "monstrously" appropriate for this month, too. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Its subsidies make the competition monstrously unfair. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault From Airbus] Reference
Who can read the meaning of a thing so monstrously multiform!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was so monstrously unjust that she was unable to feel angry. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
But thou art horribly, and as it were most monstrously improved?. From Wordnik.com. [Cromwell] Reference
I need hardly say that the shrine of Guadalupe is monstrously rich. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
"Lew, by his own telling, could be monstrously abusive and difficult.". From Wordnik.com. [Death of a 'Fortunate Son'] Reference
I began to agree with those who felt her decision was monstrously selfish. From Wordnik.com. [How Old Is Too Old?] Reference
It's a movie that is so monstrously silly it should be tested for steroids. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004] Reference
It came into view behind a bounder: a monstrously spreading tentacular tree. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
"If so," says Patrick, "the capability of the Iraqis has gone up monstrously.". From Wordnik.com. [What Can Iraq Do?] Reference
Too monstrously the magnanimity of this man weights the scale against the woman. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Happy's monstrously bloated body sagged, and his skin felt dangerously dry and tight. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
It was one of those hard daubs that are nevertheless so monstrously like the originals. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: It is going to be monstrously huge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2002] Reference
Our parents monstrously ignored the atrocity, on the porch with their funny tasting sodas. From Wordnik.com. [Riposi in Pace.] Reference
"Now," she said, not quite steadily, "now I know how monstrously alive a mountain can seem.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
The alterations were internal, extra hull bracing and a new and monstrously powerful engine. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
"These numbers were monstrously larger than anything we'd experienced otherwise," says Smith. From Wordnik.com. [Exactly How Bad Is It?] Reference
The merchant stretched monstrously, puffed out his stomach, and plumped himself down on a seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
That sigh of displaced air was not as loud as a breeze, but it echoed monstrously in Shann's ears. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Surely he could not have had enough work now to keep those insatiable hands so monstrously in motion. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
I felt a strange relief at hearing that someone besides me had been treated monstrously by Hatsumomo. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
The theatre was scrupulously, monstrously immaculate — a place of tiles and chromium and white enamel. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
There was something so monstrously unbelievable about his audacity that she could hardly believe her ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Apartment Next Door] Reference
Something raged, and about her spun a disk of noise, of shock-distorted faces, of monstrously straining muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
We cannot yet comprehend how a handful of men should have been able to resist such a number so monstrously insane. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
The fact is that Hezbollah has, as you said, faced a-- Hezbollah has miscalculated monstrously, I believe you said. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006] Reference
Now, once for all, we freely admit that it were monstrously unjust to regard or treat a man otherwise than as a man. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
This is a monstrously huge ship, with a totally unreasonable slice of the military budget required to keep it flying. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
Barrent's face was now monstrously swollen at the forehead, and his nose was flat and spread out almost to the cheekbones. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
The rocket towered, winged and monstrously checkered in white and orange, against the first flickerings of the false dawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of Home] Reference
Barrent turned away from her and almost ran into a monstrously fat woman who pulled open her blouse to reveal eight shrunken breasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
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