adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear
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a monstrous lie
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.
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A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.
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Carr has created a monstrous villain, a female killer of children.
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Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.
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In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.
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In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.
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She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.
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The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.