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monstrousness

/mon-struhs/US // ˈmɒn strəs //UK // (ˈmɒnstrəs) //

怪异性,畸形性,怪异,畸形

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
    • : shocking or revolting; outrageous: monstrous cruelty.
    • : extraordinarily great; huge; immense: a monstrous building.
    • : deviating grotesquely from the natural or normal form or type.
    • : having the nature or appearance of a fabulous monster.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : extremely; exceedingly; very.

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Examples

  • Twenty-two-year-old wunderkind Luka Dončić started his Olympic career with a monstrous performance, one rarely witnessed in international basketball.

  • Enter Epstein, an old business contact of her father’s, whose short-lived romance with Maxwell gave way to a very different, allegedly monstrous kind of mutually beneficial arrangement.

  • Far too often, traditional narrative storytelling has worked to further marginalize people who are already marginalized in society by framing aspects of their identities as monstrous, inherently evil, or Other.

  • The more layers of this scam you peel back, the more monstrous it looks.

  • One does not last weeks on this monstrous regimen without spiritual help.

  • “You know, I never had a monstrous ego,” Mailer confides to a friend in l987.

  • All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people.

  • Even Godzilla, the ugliest star attraction of them all, is bigger than ever, both at the box office and in sheer monstrous height.

  • “In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.

  • And decency is our great, guiding strength as we face such monstrous foes as ISIS.

  • She was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.

  • Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.

  • There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of all living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales.

  • The little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.

  • The one thing that loomed big in my mind's eye was the monstrous injustice of the accusation.