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单词 monstrously
释义
monstrousmon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear
  • a monstrous lie
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 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 stairsmonstrously adverb:  He was ugly and monstrously fat. It was monstrously unfair.
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