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Definition of Monstrously

1. Adverb. In a hideous manner. "Her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"

2. Adverb. In a terribly evil manner. "The child was heinously murdered"

3. Adverb. In a grotesque manner. "Behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies"

Definition of Monstrously

1. adv. In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked.

Definition of Monstrously

1. Adverb. In a monstrous manner. ¹

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Definition of Monstrously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monstrously

monsterlet monsterlike monsterous monsterously monsters monstery monstrance monstrances monstration monstre

monstres monstrose monstrosities monstrosity monstrous monstrously (current term) monstrousness monstrousnesses monstruosities monstruosity

monstruous mont montadale montadales montage montaged montages montaging montagnard montagnards

Literary usage of Monstrously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... if they cannot be prevailed upon to withhold them,' - It is so strange to us,' said Mee Beli, ' and so monstrously dull and vulgar, to be in the country ..."

2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"We must distinguish the catastrophe itself, which may be said to commence in 1681 and which proved so monstrously violent, from the long and slow decline ..."

3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"After depicting some monstrously disagreeable females, he declares: " But she is more intolerable yet, Who plays at critic v/hen at table set: Calls Virgil ..."

4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... hanging downe over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them, which nrc both verv bad and hurtfull. It appears that this mode was also adopted by ..."

5. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1818)
"The price is monstrously risen since that time, for it is now no less than 4000/. ... monstrously ..."

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