monstrous

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmonstrousmon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjective 1 BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSvery wrong, immoral, or unfair It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room. Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.2 BIGUGLYunusually large a monstrous nose3 unnatural or ugly and frightening SYN hideous a monstrous shadow on the stairs —monstrously adverb He was ugly and monstrously fat. It was monstrously unfair.Examples from the Corpusmonstrous• a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear• In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.• In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.• A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.• a monstrous lie• A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.• Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.• The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.• She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.

单词	monstrous
释义	monstrous From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmonstrousmon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjective 1 BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSvery wrong, immoral, or unfair It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room. Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.2 BIGUGLYunusually large a monstrous nose3 unnatural or ugly and frightening SYN hideous a monstrous shadow on the stairs —monstrously adverb He was ugly and monstrously fat. It was monstrously unfair.Examples from the Corpusmonstrous• a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear• In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.• In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.• A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.• a monstrous lie• A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.• Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.• The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.• She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.
随便看	hundreds of something hundreds of years etc hundredweight hung hung jury hung parliament hung up all in package etc all in price all in price etc all in the past all inclusive all inclusive inclusive all is all is not well all is not lost all is well is not well all is well/all is not well all kinds of all kinds of crazy etc all kinds of wrong etc all loss insurance all manner of all manner of something all mod cons all night