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US
/mɑnˈstɹɑsəti/
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[ UK /mənstɹˈɒsɪti/ ]
[ UK /mənstɹˈɒsɪti/ ]
NOUN
-
something hideous or frightful
they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity - a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
How To Use monstrosity In A Sentence
- You mean to say someone scooped this from off the floor of the labs and said, yes, this blue one here, let's see what sort of monstrosity it will blossom into if brought to term?
- Robert Heinlein characterized revolution as “a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individuals.” » Viva la revolution heinleinblog
- I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
- The reptilian monstrosity shook off the vines with total ease, body curled up beneath the neck, and tail stretched out behind it, rattling noisily.
- Outrage at the monstrosity of his regime is unavoidable.
- A planned telephone mast has been denounced as a monstrosity by people in Wootton Bassett.
- The awful intelligence came to me that Harwell must have loved that sentimental Victorian monstrosity. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
- Being maid of honour is a pretty cool job really, and my taffeta monstrosity got lots of polite compliments.
- It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
- There has been no consultation about this, and the proposed mast is an absolute monstrosity.