monstrous

• Everything in the facts was monstrous, and most of all my lucid perception of them; the only thing allied to nature and truth was my having to act on that perception. —  Embarrassments
• A set of sourly conceited old Malvolios, whom Shakespeare laughs his fill at in his comedies Pray, what were you about to suggest with regard to Polonius," observed the cosmopolitan with quiet forbearance, expressive of the patience of a superior mind at the petulance of an inferior one; "how do you characterize his advice to Laertes As false, fatal, and calumnious," exclaimed the other, with a degree of ardor befitting one resenting a stigma upon the family escutcheon, "and for a father to give his son--monstrous. —  The Confidence-Man
• It may be described as a monstrous blot of barbarism hanging on the skirts of civilisation. —  The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
• Just when we thought ourselves safe in referring to the great blizzard as a monstrous, unheard-of thing, and were dwelling securely in the memory of how we gathered violets in the woods out in Queens and killed mosquitoes in the house in Christmas week, comes grim winter and locks the rivers and buries us up to the neck in snow, before the Thanksgiving dinner is cold. —  Children of the Tenements
• I tell you that it is nothing short of monstrous, and I am ashamed of France that she has submitted to be thus dictated to. —  A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story

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