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Monstrously

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mon·strous  (mnstrs)
adj.
1. Shockingly hideous or frightful.
2. Exceptionally large; enormous: a monstrous tidal wave.
3. Deviating greatly from the norm in appearance or structure; abnormal.
4. Of or resembling a fabulous monster.
[Middle English, from Old French monstruos, from Latin mnstrusus, from mnstrum, portent, monster; see monster.]
monstrous·ly adv.
monstrous·ness n.
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Adv.1.monstrously - in a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"
hideously, horridly
2.monstrously - in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered"
heinously
3.monstrously - in a grotesque manner; "behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies"
grotesquely
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