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- adjective obsolete Monstrous.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
monstrous .
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Examples
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Germans and white southerners seem to me to be unique not in their participation in monstruous crimes but in their acknowledgement of their participation of monstruous crimes.
"These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind." Ann Althouse 2009
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We are apparently still not learning from our mistakes, as the monstruous Gateway project keeps plodding along.
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This inference has been quite correctly drawn by Bolzano, who was led thereby to his monstruous doctrine that there would exist bodies with and without surfaces, the one class containing just so many as the other, because contact would be possible only between a body with a surface and another without.
Boundary Varzi, Achille 2008
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But now, in the age of runaway industrialism, with a dominant global system of social organization that firmly believes in infinite growth in a very finite planet, it has acquired simply monstruous proportions, as the grotesque dimensions of animal exploitation by the industrial method easily illustrate, and the death of one species after another seem to corroborate.
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Where a group of female villains the Female Furies is composed of atractive and monstruous characters exactly like a male one.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #347 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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A bigger one might make a cool monstruous plant for a forest in a fantasy world though.
Infanticida Glenda Larke 2007
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I've read a few episodes of Wallestein not the first issue so it appears that the character's background is as follows : he is the monstruous son of Count Wallestein.
WHAT-stein?!? 2005
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There be in it dyuers peoples of sondry phisonomy and shape, monstruous and of hugly shewe.
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The fascist tyranny installed in Chile on 11 September 1973, which is a monstruous and abject offspring of the CIA and Yankee imperialists, is the most tangible illustration of this policy.
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It will seem equally monstrous to the future generation, much more than it would seem to our own generation, because people often become used to seeing monstruous things without noticing their monstrosity.
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