How To Use Monstrously In A Sentence
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Most of us live in sprawling chaotic cities that have expanded monstrously in the last decades, without anything resembling urban planning.
First Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author
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It would be monstrously unfair.
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As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear.
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Monstrously inflated costs are designed to keep the hoi polloi at bay.
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Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.
Ken Russell, flamboyant wild man of British cinema, dies aged 84
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The search for further clues was long and uneventful; but monstrously, unhumanly patient Nadreck stuck to it until he found one.
Children of the Lens
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And AFAIK (I am in no wise well-versed in the intricacies of this monstrously large bill -- neither, I suspect, is anyone on Capitol Hill), the subsidies are "rebated" when you file your tax return -- i.e., pay full-price up front, and we'll send ya a check once a year.
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Here was killing without cause, an orgy of blind-brutishness, a thing monstrously irrational.
CHAPTER XV
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Many a private chair, too, inclosing some fine lady, monstrously hooped and furbelowed, and preceded by running – footmen bearing flambeaux — for which extinguishers are yet suspended before the doors of a few houses of the better sort — made the way gay and light as it danced along, and darker and more dismal when it had passed.
Barnaby Rudge
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Indeed, the most unstoppably undead monsters are almost always in some sense religious, figures of monstrously divine or anti-divine otherness.
Timothy Beal: There's No Such Thing As Osama Bin Laden
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He was ugly and monstrously fat.
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Much earlier Aristotle forcefully noted that the limits of human perfection (or, if you prefer, the boundlessness of human imperfection) often makes the lesser of two evils the far better choice as it is easier to hit and less likely to go as monstrously wrong as demanding perfection and failing altogether.
Think Progress » Santorum excuses Graham’s anti-Muslim comments, calls them ‘reasonable.’
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Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer.
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In the very next paragraph, he remarks: ‘It is monstrously premature to think that the threat has passed.
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Now she had settled into a monstrously gabled and turreted house on Stillwater's South Hill.
VAPOR TRAIL
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Danson, as the constantly stoned and seemingly monstrously self-absorbed magazine editor George, gives the show weight and heft, which is hard to see in the first several episodes because George appears to be a flibbertigibbet.
Lance Mannion:
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It was monstrously unfair.
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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.
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Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong.
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He was ugly and monstrously fat.
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The proposals - which were widely condemned as monstrously intrusive and constituting a gross infringement of privacy and liberty - have been withdrawn for further consultation.
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It was as if he walked in a new and monstrously populous jungle and was unacquainted with its ways and denizens.
CHAPTER XXV
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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
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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
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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
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The public sector is still monstrously big and squeezes out the private sector.
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Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.
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Danson, as the constantly stoned and seemingly monstrously self-absorbed magazine editor George, gives the show weight and heft, which is hard to see in the first several episodes because George appears to be a flibbertigibbet.
Ted Danson takes down Boredom on points
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And, today, the monstrously ugly thing was demolished and removed, leaving the patch of ground clear for flowers, shrubs and trees.
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Unless you were monstrously tall, you could see nothing in front of you except for the back of someone's head or by chance, the flanks of a donkey or packhorse carrying goods.
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That white, furtive, creeping girl, from whose loose hair peered out a pair of haunted eyes; that drooped thing backing against the wall, feeling for it, flat against it, with open shocked mouth, astare but seeing nothing: the whole truth flared before him monstrously naked.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
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Like, when one of the characters extolls Beowulf's deeds and says how his story will live on forever, and you think, yeah, until a millenia and a bit later when it'll get dug up, rewired into a monstrously misshapen thing, painted in gauche muticolour, and made to dance like a monkey-puppet in a Follywood Spectacular.
I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!
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She enjoyed her trip to Canada, where she addressed Parliament, throwing in a few words like “ochlocracy” (mob rule) and “immane” (monstrously cruel).
The Last Empress
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I'd like neatly ordered dreadlocks that aren't monstrously thick, so the idea is for them to partition my hair appropriately and then use the backcombing method.