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		monstrousmon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjective    - a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear
 - a monstrous lie
 
 - A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.
 - A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.
 - Carr has created a monstrous villain, a female killer of children.
 - Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.
 - In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.
 - In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.
 - She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.
 - The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.
 
   ► It’s monstrous  It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.  1very wrong, immoral, or unfair:   It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.  Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.2unusually large:   a monstrous nose3unnatural or ugly and frightening  SYN  hideous:   a monstrous shadow on the stairs—monstrously adverb:   He was ugly and monstrously fat.  It was monstrously unfair.  |