Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a monstrous manner
- Exceedingly; inordinately; enormously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily.
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- adverb In a
monstrous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a grotesque manner
- adverb in a terribly evil manner
- adverb in a hideous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her cover cake is "monstrously" appropriate for this month, too:
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Her cover cake is "monstrously" appropriate for this month, too:
Archive 2008-10-01 Jen 2008
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Theodora A. Jankowski argues that the "discourse of humanism, which purported to validate a woman's intellectual capacities and raise her social standard by educating her 'like a man,' paradoxically helped to denigrate women by creating 'monstrously' intellectual creatures who did not fit any acceptable discourses of womanhood."
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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A cousin of John Quincy Adams, Elizabeth Cranch, wrote of her love for dancing and her fear of the wrath of her cousin, who was “monstrously severe upon the follies of mankind.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It was so monstrously stupid that it took me no more than 15 seconds of examination to debunk the thing (I mean, just me looking at it!)
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree 2010
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Much of the reason Bush got away with so much is that liberals were too busy trying to figure out if he was monumentally stupid or monstrously evil.
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C (h) unt can you actually be so monstrously stupid, can you actually be so utterly incapable of reading simple English sentences, that you actually imagine that a “referral” is the same as a “mandated visit”?
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They go away and model things and come back with some monstrously large number of the amount that needs to be purchased, and the policymakers say, 'Well, I'm not sure you've properly taken into account all the tail risks of this?
Will America come to envy Japan's lost decade? Ezra Klein 2010
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Example of Dunning-Kruger though; somebody so monstrously cognitively vacuous he completely lacks even the most elementary sorts of critical thinking skill neeed to understand what the “arena of ideas” even is, much less who is winning on grounds of logical and empirical validity (as ooposed to infantile hystrionics and vapid puling and whining, which Romartin and his ilk excel at with such egregious abandon.)
Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers 2010
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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.’ 2010
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