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/mˈɒnstɹəsli/
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in a terribly evil manner
the child was heinously murdered -
in a hideous manner
her face was hideously disfigured after the accident -
in a grotesque manner
behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies
How To Use monstrously In A Sentence
- Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.
- Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong.
- He was ugly and monstrously fat.
- The proposals - which were widely condemned as monstrously intrusive and constituting a gross infringement of privacy and liberty - have been withdrawn for further consultation.
- It was as if he walked in a new and monstrously populous jungle and was unacquainted with its ways and denizens. CHAPTER XXV
- It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them. Chapter 26
- Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. THE KANAKA SURF
- A good many minor people -- hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like -- will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
- The public sector is still monstrously big and squeezes out the private sector.
- They are purposely hidden away at backwater college campuses, where the monstrously large football mesomorphs must cavort under the searing sun, be-helmeted, in all their hot and bulky pads.